• mgbullar
• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Sep, 29, 2018
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I don’t know about you, but it seems like every time I go outside during the summer I get eaten up by mosquitoes. On a mission trip in college to Birmingham, Alabama, our host church told us to watch out for mosquitoes – Alabama’s state bird. Imagine my response when I read this headline: Gene […]

• mgbullar
• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Sep, 24, 2018
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I was struck by our conversation in class last week by the necessity of unethical behavior in the workplace in the 1950s. Half a century ago, it seems like if you weren’t willing to take unethical steps, you couldn’t survive in the workplace. This is interesting because normally I think of the 1950s as an era […]

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• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Sep, 17, 2018
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In class last week, we talked about how important it is for engineers to maintain the public trust and stay relevant in the current internet age. Despite its flaws, science and engineering remains a good way to find the truth compared to other forms of thinking. To survive in the new age — where knowledge […]

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• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Sep, 10, 2018
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Our discussion in class Thursday reminded me of a Planet Money podcast I listened to earlier this year. The premise of this episode was a discussion with psychologist Brian Nosek at UVA. After reading a psychology paper in a major journal that proposed ESP was true, he concluded that we wither have to conclude ESP […]