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An analysis and group effort: Solving the moral and ethical issues facing an engineer and hisco-workers

Abstract -- Engineers today are constantly faced with ethical and moral dilemmas. Through group analysis of the case study “Failure” students in CTS are able to assess the situation and provide their own opinions of what they would do if they were ever put in a compromising position. Further more, this paper examines group work and its effectiveness. In addition, it examines the societal perspective of engineering and ethics.

Index Terms—Engineering and ethics, group work and effectiveness, morals, societal perspectives. I.

I. INTRODUCTION

“Engineers are confronted with an array of moral issues and dilemmas as the complexity of modern technology results in equally complex efforts to assess the accompanying environmental and safety risks.” The case study “Failure”
is about a company supplier named R&M. R&M sent their client Exes faulty equipment. It wasn’t until R&M held a staff meeting to deal with the problem that senior Engineer Walt Winters ...

Posted by: Margaret Rowden

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