Ethical Theory
Which ethical theory seeks to produce the most utility and is defined as a balance of good & bad consequences of an action?
What is Utilitarianism?
This government office grants patents in the United States.
What is the US Patent and Trademark Office?
When considering accidents, ________________ accidents are harder to understand, harder to control, and are characteristic of very complex technologies and the complex organizations that are required to operate them.
What is Systemic or System accidents?
_________________________ is a complex, one-time effort limited by time, budget, resources, and performance specifications that is designed to meet customer needs.
What is a Project?
The ethical theory Utilitarianism is associated with what leading British philosopher and economist.
John Stuart Mill
What theory contends that there are duties that should be performed regardless of whether the acts lead to the most good?
What is Duty ethics?
20 years is the time period that this Intellectual Property (IP) right is granted for in most cases.
Answer: What is a patent?
Note that design patents are good for 14 years and that the previous patent timeframe was 17 years.
This is a method that engineers sometimes use to analyze risk and determine whether or not a project should proceed.
What is Risk-Benefit Analysis?
This type of document can also be called a Statement of Work (SOW).
What is a Request for Proposal (RFP)?
A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc. Is known as ______________________.
What is Intellectual Property?
What theory regards actions as right that manifest good character traits and regards actions as bad that display bad traits. This theory also focuses on the type of person we should strive to be.
What is Virtue Ethics?
This type of IP protection lasts for life plus 70 years.
What is Copyright protection?
This type of accident is caused by flaws in a design.
What is an Engineered or Engineering Accident?
_______________ is the process of forecasting or approximating the time and cost of completing project deliverables.
What is Estimating?
This type of ethics deals with how we treat others in our day-to-day lives.
What is personal ethics?
German philosopher Immanuael Kant is associated with this particular ethical theory.
What is Duty Ethics?
To obtain Copyright registration, an Author must send application and fees to this entity.
What is the Library of Congress Copyright Office?
__________________ is a structured and systematic examination or study of a complex planned or existing process or operation in order to identify and evaluate problems that may represent risks to personnel or equipment. It can also be referred to as a PHA or Process Hazard Assessment.
What is HAZOP or Hazard and Operability Study?
When considering project management and projects, the term ________________ describes items like drawings, formal calculations, specification documents, and equipment data sheets.
What are Deliverables or Project Deliverables?
This type of legal protection is given to authors for their “original works of authorship".
What is Copyright?
John Locke (1632-1704) largely formulated this ethical theory.
What is Rights Ethics?
This is a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark.
What is Intellectual Property?
In this type of analysis, a top-down, deductive failure analysis using Boolean logic and determining a probability of failure is completed. In the absence of actual probability values, often engineering judgment may be used.
What is Fault Tree Analysis?
The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines this as "a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.” This is organization of information is often developed using software tools like Microsoft Project or Primavera and is a part of a good project schedule.
What is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
This definition.. "the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation" covers what branch of philosophy?
What is Ethics?