Engineering and Ethics Responsibility in Engineering Discuss some ethical issue

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Engineering and Ethics

Responsibility in Engineering

  1. Discuss some ethical issues faced in engineering design. Provide some examples from our text book and/or the internet and present ideas to resolve those issues. (write at least 3 paragraphs)
  2. Research the case studies of space shuttle incidents of the Challenger” in 1986 and “Columbia” in 2003. Answer the following questions: (Use the template: Evaluation of Case Study)
    • What are the factors that contributed to each incident?
    • What were the similarities between the two cases? Do they reveal any common ethical issues?
    • Discuss the concept of blame responsibility and causation in relation to these incidents.


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