Ethical Support for Engineers and Scientists

The Ethics Help-Line is sponsored by the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science and is cosponsored by the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE). The Help-Line is intended to provide advice for engineers, scientists, and trainees encountering ethical problems in their work. Principal goals of this Help-Line are to support scientists and engineers to maintain high ethical standards and to act wisely when confronted with multiple and potentially conflicting responsibilities

The Ethics Help-Line is sponsored by the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science and is co-sponsored by the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE).

The Help-Line is intended to provide advice for engineers, scientists, and trainees encountering ethical problems in their work. Principal goals of this Help-Line are to support scientists and engineers to maintain high ethical standards and to act wisely when confronted with multiple and potentially conflicting responsibilities.

How the Help-Line Works

An engineer or scientist can initiate contact with the Help-Line by sending an email message briefly indicating the nature of the problem to:

helpline@onlineethics.org

This message will be read by the Director of the Online Ethics Center, Caroline Whitbeck, or her administrative assistant, Renee Agnew, and routed to an appropriate Help-Line responder, who will try to respond within three days.

It should be understood both that difficult situations may arise in which intelligent, knowledgeable, people of goodwill may disagree as to the best course of action, and that the Help-Line can only offer information and advice; it cannot guarantee a good outcome in every case.

For complete details, visit the Online Ethics Center website.

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