Transcript Chapter 10 Prpfessional Development of Others

Chapter 10
Professional Development of Others
Stephanie Karas, Casey Blake,
Shigemitsu Yoshii, Tiffany
Huseman
“The engineer shall hold paramount the
health, safety, and welfare of the public.”
When producing something that is
designed to kill, should the engineer be
responsible for the detrimental effects?
• Whose hands the engineer’s product ends up in
– Kurt Prufer, ovens
– Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, AK-47
• Trust in government’s discretion
– Defense companies are justified
– “But suppose the word public in the code of ethics
really means all of humanity. What then is the
engineer’s responsibility, and would it preclude
working on armaments that are designed to kill some
fraction of the public?”
“The engineer shall hold paramount the health,
safety, and welfare of the public unless the
rights of other living things are unfairly
compromised.”
• Reverence for Life
– All life is sacred
– The right to exist to its fullest potential
• Is it wrong to eat meat?
– Humans are unnecessarily wasteful
– “Is it respectful to formerly living things of
we are wasteful with our food?”
Corporate Donations and
Sponsorships
• Altruism
• University of North Carolina
– Nike, $7 million annually
– IBM, millions of dollars and computers
• “The loss of independence of both the
academic and athletic programs is
considered minor by the administration, but
the threat of losing this support must affect
the decisions and activities of the
university.”
Maintaining the Quality of
Engineering Education
• Affirmative action
– School accepts tuition at the cost of the
students’ education
– Universities help the students slide by to
maintain their image and their tuition
– Lowering the par produces inadequate
engineers