Ethical Dilemma in Engineering
This assignment has three parts, all three parts must be addressed in full. Work should be submitted as a word document double spaced. The file name should be your last name (surname) ethics.
The assignment will have the following form.
Ethics Assignment
Analysis of an Engineering Dilemma (substitute your own title)
Locate a situation in the media in the last 5 years or so that presents an ethical dilemma for engineers. Give the perspective from both the pro and con points of view and then state your opinion on the matter.
Personal Ethics Statement of Your Name (use your own name)
In this section you need to state an ethics viewpoint for your conduct. Having done this, you should construct an example of an ethical dilemma that demonstrates how your viewpoint is followed.
Ethics of Working on a Team
Here you need to define what is ethical and unethical behavior when working on a team. Topics that should be covered are work effort, work submittal, and personal interactions as affecting team dynamics.
Notes:
One definition of ethics is morals applied to business. The purpose of this assignment is for you to come up with a set of ethics at this point in your life and to be able to apply these to future ethical dilemmas. However, another purpose of this assignment is to make you understand that ethics are subject to interpretation and are lines drawn by individual ethical positions are not shared across the population. This does not mean that others are unethical when they do not agree with the lines drawn by your ethical statement. The assignment attempts to have you take a broader view by virtue of having you consider both sides of an issue in the engineering dilemma and also contrive a situation to test your personal ethical statement.
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