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Exigent decision-making in engineering

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  1. The Graduate College, Western Michigan University, 49008, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    Michael Pritchard Ph.D. (Senior Associate Dean)

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

    Taft H. Broome Jr.

  3. Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

    Vivian Weil

  4. Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, USA

    Michael S. Pritchard

  5. Division of Multi-Disciplinary Studies, North Carolina State University, USA

    Joseph R. Herkert

  6. Department of Civil Engineering, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

    Michael Davis & Taft Broome Jr.

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Pritchard, M., Broome, T.H., Weil, V. et al. Introduction. SCI ENG ETHICS 5, 541–567 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-999-0054-1

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