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:
Provide a brief background about the engineering topic or issue.
Identify the stakeholders and outline the various viewpoints around the topic or issue.
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.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of possible presentation topics:
FIU Bridge Collapse (lrodrig6, mbond1)
Toyota Unintended Acceleration (nwamble, hhentges)
Volkswagen Emissions (alucche1, koneill9)
Silk Road / Dread Pirate Roberts (cpickfor, mperez19)
Wannacry / Ransonware (jdelledo)
Equifax Data Breach (abellm)
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (bwatson3, dpark4)
YouTube and Censorship (cmartyak, ahapp)
China and Social Credit (agregor1, llombar2)
Theranos Fraud (kabe1, ekinyon)
CRISPR Patent Battle (kfarr1, delwell)
The Boring Company (jhuber4, tleytham)
ICE and License Plate Tracking (cdimpel, mfarleka)
Amazon Facial Recognition in Policing (mwinton, azammit)
Palantir and Predictive Policing (kmoran10, hsarkey)
Algorithmic Bias (rbuitrag, pdelcamp)
Martin Shkreli and Price Gouging (ispencer, kbrandan)
DePuy hip replacement recall (srodrig8, klacosta)
Natural Gas Leak in CA (nhasou, jhouge)
Barcelona and Surveillance (shwang5, nkelly3)
ZTE, Trump (jandrad2)
Robocallers (pdirlam)
Right to Try (imurrer, jshard)
Net Neutrality (rmazzini, jzelinsk)
Sentencing Software (kcapella, idelgad1)
Only one group can present about a topic. Once you have identified your top three topic choices, submit your proposal using the form below.
If there is a topic or issue not on the list, verify with the instructor before submitting it.
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:
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: