Overview

For this project, you are to work in groups of 1 - 2 students to research an engineering ethics topic and then create a video presentation that accomplishes the following:

  1. Provide a brief background about the engineering topic or issue.

  2. Identify the stakeholders and outline the various viewpoints around the topic or issue.

  3. Analyze and discuss your own position and thoughts regarding the topic or issue.

The goal of this project is for you to research a topic, explain the facts regarding the topic, describe the different stakeholders and viewpoints, and then provide your own analysis and evaluation of the ethics involved in the topic or issue.

This video presentation should be around 5 minutes in length. It will be played in class during the last week and you will have to answer some followup questions from the audience.

Topics

Here is a non-exhaustive list of possible presentation topics:

Notes

  1. Only one group can present about a topic. Once you have identified your top three topic choices, submit your proposal using the form below.

  2. If there is a topic or issue not on the list, verify with the instructor before submitting it.

Proposal

Your project proposal is due at midnight, Friday, June 15. You must identify three possible topics and list them in order. Topics will be assigned in first-come-first-serve order.

To submit your proposal, one group member should fill out the following form:

Presentation

Your video presentation is due at midnight, Sunday, June 24. You should upload your presentation video to a cloud hosting service such as YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo, or Soundcloud.

To submit your project, one group member should fill out the following form:

Schedule

Tuesday, June 26

# Topic Members Video
1 Toyota Unintended Acceleration nwamble, hhentges
2 Volkswagen Emissions alucche1, koneill9
3 Natural Gas Leak in California nhasou, jhouge
4 FIU Bridge Collapse lrodrig6, mbond1
5 Silk Road / Dread Pirate Roberts cpickfor, mperez19
6 Wannacry / Ransonware jdelledo
7 Facebook and Cambridge Analytica bwatson3, dpark4
8 Net Neutrality rmazzini, jzelinsk
9 YouTube and Censorship cmartyak, ahapp
10 Robocallers abellm, pdirlam
11 ZTE, Trump jandrad2
12 The Boring Company jhuber4, tleytham

Wednesday, June 27

# Topic Members Video
1 DePuy Hip Replacement Recall srodrig8, klacosta
2 Martin Shkreli and Price Gouging ispencer, kbrandan
3 Theranos Fraud kabe1, ekinyon
4 CRISPR Patent Battle kfarr1, delwell
5 Right to Try imurrer, jshard
6 ICE and License Plate Tracking cdimpel, mfarleka
7 Barcelona and Surveillance shwang5, nkelly3
8 China Social Credit agregor1, llombar2
9 Amazon Facial Recognition in Policing mwinton, azammit
10 Palantir and Predictive Policing kmoran10, hsarkey
11 Sentencing Software idelgad1, kcapella
12 Algorithmic Bias rbuitrag, pdelcamp