The Internship: An Engineering Ethics Novel - Paperback

by Annie Alegre (Editor), Annie Alegre (Illustrator), Rafael Moras (Author)

Engineering in the classroom was challenging enough for these four university students, but how they would ace the daunting, grey areas of real-world problems as they embark on their internship-based senior project at a local company? Annie Sue, Liz, Felipe, and Layla find themselves in a thrilling adventure, facing not only the technical challenges inherent to their demanding project, but also personal drama, team conflict, bribery, competing stakeholders, legal "ambiguities", and the temptation to violate ethical principles. Exposed to a variety of leadership styles on their own values, this dynamic group must reflect on their own values as they find no perfect solutions to complex issues that forever shape their path to becoming professional engineers.Will they reach their internship goals? Will their decisions lead to full-time jobs or burned bridges? How will they draw the line between workplace success and compromised principles and ethics? The Internship is an engineering ethics novel including -complex, real-world issues designed to promote ethical judgment-a riveting, fast-moving story-line with relatable characters and layered dilemmas that will captivate professionals and students alike-probing, end-of-chapter questions to facilitate engaging conversation, articulation, and personal decision-making on moral issues-scenarios that will help cultivate a mature and sensitive understanding of engineering ethics, morals, and principles.