Engineering Ethics
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Engineering Ethics explores the moral and ethical responsibilities of engineers in professional practice. The course examines the code of ethics and standards established by engineering societies, addresses issues such as safety, sustainability, honesty, and integrity, and analyzes case studies of real-world engineering decisions and their societal impacts. Students will learn to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas, consider the broader implications of technological innovations, and develop a framework for ethical reasoning in their future careers as engineers.
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Society Ethics and Technology 5th Edition by Morton Winston
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Chapter 1: History
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Q1) What is the largest corporation in the world at the start of the twenty-first century?
A) Ford
B) Wal-Mart
C) General Electric
D) Nokia
Answer: B
Q2) Torricelli tried repeating Berti's experiment with what substance?
A) Gold
B) Oxygen
C) Lead
D) Mercury
Answer: D
Q3) Otto von Guericke was the mayor of what German city in what year when he designed an air pump?
A) Magdeburg in 1698
B) Munich in 1698
C) Magdeburg in 1654
D) Munich in 1654
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Society
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Q1) Who developed the concept of "delegation to non-humans"?
A) Foucault
B) Kuhn
C) Habermas
D) Latour
Answer: D
Q2) Who held that technological innovations establish a framework for public order?
A) Paul Loser
B) Langdon Winner
C) Bill Gates
D) Alfred Nobel
Answer: B
Q3) What does STS stand for?
A) Social Technology Society
B) Social Studies of Science and Technology
C) Study of Technological Shifts
D) Study of Social and Technological Shifts
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Ethics
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Q1) Who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?
A) Weber
B) Rawls
C) Marcuse
D) Kant
Answer: A
Q2) Who described the "accordion effect"?
A) Rawls
B) Powers
C) Kant
D) Feinberg
Answer: D
Q3) Johnson and Powers hold that allowing artifacts to have agency:
A) Diminishes the responsibility of their users
B) Does not diminish the responsibility of their users
C) Is philosophically mistaken as it broadens the scope of the moral community too far
D) Is philosophically mistaken as it still offers an overly narrow view of moral agency
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Security Surveillance
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Q1) Stanley and Steinhardt accuse the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of hindering what type of privacy for Americans?
A) At home
B) Workplace
C) Genetic
D) Financial
Q2) What is a bull market followed by?
A) A bear market
B) A stork market
C) A boom
D) A recession
Q3) Who argues in favor of universal government surveillance?
A) James Stacey Taylor
B) Joel Feinberg
C) James Rachels
D) John Stuart Mill
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Chapter 5: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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Q1) Which events related to World War II are identified as cases that changed the notion of responsibility?
A) The Adolph Eichmann trial and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
B) The invasion of Iran by the Allied Powers
C) The invasion of Normandy on D-Day
D) The Treaty of Versailles
Q2) The notion that once an action is taken by an agent,it lives a life of its own that combines with different environmental conditions and the final result is beyond the agent's predictive abilities,is what concept?
A) Morin's Ecology of Action
B) Gaia Theory
C) Roboethics
D) Heterogenesis of Ends
Q3) Whose research in science and society has sustained the idea that technoscientific knowledge stabilizes in society?
A) Renè von Schomberg
B) John Rawls
C) Sheila Jasanoff
D) Isaac Asimov
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Chapter 6: Nanotechnology
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Q1) What is the name of the potential nanotechnological weapon,primarily for spying,being considered by the US Department of Defense?
A) Smart dust
B) Decepticons
C) Nanobombs
D) Smart sand
Q2) Bergeson believes that which groups will increase advocating for more enhanced transparency and product disclosure in the near future?
A) Environmentalists
B) Nanotechnology researchers
C) The Republican Party
D) Shareholder rights activists
Q3) Who has designed robotic replacements for human blood cells that perform thousands of times more effectively than their biological counterparts?
A) Eric Drexler
B) Robert Freitas
C) Gordon Moore
D) Bill Joy
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Chapter 7: Inernet & Social Media
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Q1) What is the notion that science and technology have a symbiotic relationship,each one helping the other,while social values shape the precise forms that technological artifacts take?
A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology
Q2) Maryanne Wolf argues deep reading is indistinguishable from:
A) Intellectual conversation
B) Deep thinking
C) Deep study
D) Internet research
Q3) According to whom does legislation not anticipate innovation?
A) Tim Wu
B) Rebiya Kadeer
C) Lawrence Lessig
D) Al Franken
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Chapter 8: Biotech and Genetic Engineering
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Q1) Who wrote Brave New World?
A) Huxley
B) Thoreau
C) Asimov
D) Heinlein
Q2) When was Brave New World published?
A) 1925
B) 1932
C) 1945
D) 1952
Q3) What,according to Nicholas Agar,is the distinguishing mark of the new liberal eugenics?
A) State neutrality
B) Government involvement
C) Fairness
D) Inclusivity
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Chapter 9: Population, environment, Climate Change
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Q1) Who wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree?
A) Robert W. Kates
B) Milton Friedman
C) Tom W. Burl
D) Tom Friedman
Q2) What organization helped spearhead the sustainable development movement in the 1980s?
A) International Union of Students (IUS)
B) International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
C) The World Academy of Science (WAS)
D) Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Q3) What region of the world has the highest percentage of chronically hungry people at 34 percent?
A) Central Asia
B) Eastern China
C) Eastern Europe
D) Sub-Saharan Africa
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