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Name: Case Analysis Module: Risk Assessment
ID: m13790
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module is founded on two insights: the analogy between problem-solving in ethics and design methodology and the effectiveness of case analysis for practicing skills in ethical problem-solving. Students will practice using a four-stage decision-making framework developed on analogy from the software development cycle. They will also learn socio-technical system analysis and how to use this to formulate and solve ethical problems that arise in everyday engineering practice. This module has been developed to test the capacity of the EAC Toolkit to add value to engineering ethics modules and to draw together interdisciplinary teams in designing and modifying EAC modules. This module is being developed as a part of an NSF-funded project, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF SES 0551779.
Subject: Humanities
Keywords: Engineering, Ethics, Nuclear Wastes, Risk Assessment
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Copyright Holders: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Maintainers: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Latest version: 1.2 (history)
First publication date: Aug 20, 2006 4:06 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Mar 2, 2007 8:47 am US/Central
Module XML: m13790_1.2.cnxml

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Version: 1.2 Mar 2, 2007 8:47 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Updated abstract
Version: 1.1 Aug 20, 2006 4:13 pm GMT-5 by William Frey
Changes: 
This case has been taken out of a Gray Matters type exercise and placed into the context of a decision making framework based on the software development cycle.  This methodology has been used on large cases.  This module will test whether it works on small decision point scenarios.

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