BTM3912 ENGINEERING

ETHICS
GROUP ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC FOR THE GROUP ASSIGNMENT
1. Bhopal Incident
2. The Crash of Valujet Flight 592
3. The Collapse and Hyatt Regency Kansas City Walkways
4. Ford Pinto design failure
5. The Titanic Ship
6. Cellular Phone and Automotive Safety
7. Boeing 737 Max crash incidents
8. The Highland Tower collapse
9. Facebook Invasion of Privacy
10. The Flaw in the Intel Pentium Chip
11. Other case besides above
TASKS
• Form a group that consists of three (3) or four (4) members.
• Choose one case study. One case study can be chosen by more than one group but the contents
must not be the same.
• Describe the case study in detail.
• Discuss what ethical issues might have been at least partly responsible for the failure.
• In other words, create a failure analysis report for this failure that includes:
1. What failed.
2. Why it failed.
3. Possible corrective actions (How to make it not fail).
4. Who was at fault, and why.
• Describe how a lack of "professionalism" or "conscientiousness" may have helped lead to this
failure.
• Please include a listing of any references you might have used (book, webpages, journals,
newspaper, etc.).
• Write a report for your work. Your report must consists of Introduction, Discussion of the
contents, Conclusion, References. Include cover page and table of content as well.
• Prepare for a presentation that will be held in Week 14.
• Report to be submitted during the presentation