• mgbullar
• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Oct, 29, 2018
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Over the weekend, I started reading Sleeping Giants. Not exactly reading for research, but it did bring up an interesting ethical question. (It seems like even when I’m doing things that aren’t related to ethics, I can’t stop viewing things through an ethics lens.) The summary on the back of the book is as follows: […]

• mgbullar
• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Oct, 23, 2018
• 8 Comments

Over the weekend, I went to dinner with my boyfriend and his roommates. While they were eating their endless shrimp at Red Lobster, the topic of cheating in high school and college came up. One of the guys mentioned getting access to a code that gave all of the answers to the physics homework assignments […]

• mgbullar
• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Oct, 15, 2018
• 2 Comments

As I’ve been working on the final project, I’ve been thinking about how to balance the values of life and technological advances. My final project deals with the release of the chemical compound GenX into the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. GenX is a byproduct of chemical production and is used in the production […]

• mgbullar
• Engineering Ethics and the Public
• Oct, 08, 2018
• 6 Comments

Scrolling through twitter, I saw a tweet from FiveThirtyEight, a website that focuses on using statistics to analyze opinion polls, sports, politics, economics… basically anything that has numbers involved. The tweet (shown below) referenced an analysis they had done on CDC’s data on gun injuries. It stuck out to me immediately, especially since it referenced […]