Answer Sheet Module 1

Self-Test 1:

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Self-Test 2:

a. Should Heinz steal the drug? Why or Why not?

b. If Heinz doesn’t love his wife, should he steal the drug for her? Why or why not?

c. Suppose the person dying is not his wife but a stranger. Should Heinz steal the drug for a
stranger? Why or why not?
 Case Study 1: The Scarce Drug Case

You are an emergency room physician and you have only five doses of a certain treatment left.
Alas, you have six patients who need it. Jones has the condition for which the drug is a treatment very
severely, and it will take all five does of the treatment to cure him. Your other five patients have the
condition very mildly, and if you give each one of them one dose, they will be cured. Any of the six who
doesn’t get the dose will die. What should you do?
 Answer Sheet Module 2

Case Study 2: The Challenger

1. Who are the principal actors or players?

2. How was the case affected by the sequence of events?

3. What were some of the political pressures that led to the decision to launch? What were the
sources of these pressures?
4. What were some of the bureaucratic pressures that led to the decision to launch? What were
the sources of these pressures?

5. Do you feel that the political and bureaucratic pressures are justified?
6. If you were placed in the position that the Thiokol engineers were, what would you have done?
Do you think that you would have succumbed to the "group think" phenomena?

7. In your view, who was the most responsible or irresponsible for the decision to launch the
space shuttle? What are some of the problems with assigning responsibility for the decision?

8. Many within NASA are worried that the agency may be undergoing a shift back to the
management system that was nearly identical to the one that lead to the Challenger Disaster.
Why do you think that may be happening?
 Answer Sheet Module 3

Case Study 3: TMI and Chernobyl

What are the safety lessons you have learn from TMI and Chernobyl incident?

Three Mile Island

Chernobyl
Self-Test 3:

From the view of confidential information, is switching job ethical? Considering that both jobs are
similar in nature.

Answer Sheet Module 4

Self-Test 4:

As a future engineer, what is the role of engineers in this global issue (MNC Issues, Environmental
Issues, Weapon Development)