Engineering Ethics
____ is an aspect in everything you see.
What is engineering?
Pressure to downplay concerns about science and technology that result in censorship
What is suppressing public knowledge?
Conduct tests of chemical processes
Design safety protocols for dangerous chemicals
Apply biology, chemistry, physics and math to solve engineering bases problems
The car that would spontaneously combust and would eventually lead to its recall.
What is the Ford Pinto?
What is my name?
Rayenna
The right course of action to any ethical dilemma, deep down, is always clear.
False
Scientists and Engineers who have stakes in a particular issue who do not provide fair and impartial information about the topic.
What is hiding conflicts of interest?
Ensure product meets governmental and environmental regulations
Analysis the safety of proposed projects
Perform aircraft testing
What are responsibilities of an aerospace engineer?
The place that experience toxic waste due to chemical dumping.
What is the Love Canal (New York)?
Hiring a family member or friend that is not qualified at your place at work, Working a part-time job for a competitor of your full time job, and Accepting gifts from people who have stakes in the business decision you have to make are examples of.
Conflicts of interest
In the ethical criteria for judgment, these are possible bad outcomes of the decision.
What are consequences?
When researchers manipulate data to support specific agendas or to appeal to a contributors
What is falsifying or fabricating data?
Analyze survey reports
Conduct material strength tests
Submit permit applications to government agencies
What are responsibilities of a civil engineer?
The name of the aircraft that exploded mid flight.
Social pressure, collective rationalization, and deflects responsibilities/consequences to other members in group.
What are the effects of groupthink?
In the ethical criteria for judgment, these what you owe to a person/party.
What are obligations?
Organizations that have a stake in a particular technology may be tempted to exaggerate its benefits
What is exaggerating technological benefits?
Prototyping
Apply mechanical and thermal machines to problems
Manage a project throughout the design process
What are a responsibilities of a mechanical engineer?
Where the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident occurred.
What is Ukraine?
___ is the first step in the engineering design process?
What is define the problem?
In the ethical criteria for judgement, it evaluates how YOU feel about the situation.
What are morals?
Pictures can be more powerful than words and can easily distort the real meaning of a message.
What is using visual images that conceal the truth?
Monitor how materials perform and evaluate how they deteriorate
Determine causes of product failure and develop ways of overcoming such failure
Evaluate technical specifications and economic factors relating to the design objectives of processes or products
Evaluate the impact of materials processing on the environment
What are examples of material engineering?
what is 7?
Information that originates in a specific company is typically the exclusive intellectual property of that company.
What is stealing or divulging proprietary information?