Transcript Enhance human welfare: Ethical Issues

Enhance human welfare:
Ethical Issues
By:
Jon Stephens, Dan Gregory,
Drew Libby, and Jim Alestock
Issues Involved
 Moral
responsibilities of Engineers
 Engineering
 Engineers
and Terrorism
as Intelligent Robots
Moral Responsibilities of Engineers
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Shall, not should
- “Shall provide” instead of “Should
provide”
Paramount the health, safety, and welfare
of the public
- Dependent upon engineer to design
safety measures that are both economical
and practical
Engineering and Terrorism
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New issue, stemming from attacks on
September 11th
Nothing is totally safe from terrorism
“Going up the pipeline”
-Find source and fix it, instead of waiting
until it reaches the end of the pipeline
Engineers as Intelligent Robots
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American engineers – education includes
courses in humanities and social sciences
- Think for themselves (“Intelligent
Robots”)
Foreign engineers – learn specific trade
- given direction by manager and perform
action (“Unintelligent Robots”)
- Chernobyl meltdown