Engineering Ethics Group
submit a report, detailin" rel="nofollow">ing your analysis of an
ethical issue drawn from the world of engin" rel="nofollow">ineerin" rel="nofollow">ing and/or busin" rel="nofollow">iness which your group has been provided.
In your report, you need to:
Describe the features of the case (and any sequence of events leadin" rel="nofollow">ing to the case, if appropriate).
Describe the stakeholders (people and companies, political or social entities), and how they were affected
by the situation,
Describe the factors that in" rel="nofollow">influenced their decisions (where relevant). Ethical codes that described or
in" rel="nofollow">influenced the stakeholders’ behaviours at the time should also be described.
Analyse the various alternative actions that the stakeholders could have taken and how these actions
might affect the way that the ethical conundrum plays out in" rel="nofollow">in practice. Pay specific attention to the
motivations and justifications, both real and imagin" rel="nofollow">ined, spurious and appropriate, that the stakeholders
might employ to guide their actions.
Briefly state what you personally, in" rel="nofollow">individually or as a group would do in" rel="nofollow">in the situation. (You obviously do
not necessarily have to agree with what happened, or with someone else’s analysis of your case, no
matter how authoritative or in" rel="nofollow">influential they appear to be). Remember that the prime goal of the course
is to understand ethical issues from the perspectives of all the stakeholders, even those with which one
would not necessarily agree and those from different cultures and societies.
Describe the extent to which you believe that the Ethical Guidelin" rel="nofollow">ines published by the Royal Academy of
Engin" rel="nofollow">ineerin" rel="nofollow">ing (or the equivalent applicable bodies in" rel="nofollow">in your particular case) provide sufficient guidance to
enable the stakeholders to establish acceptable practice in" rel="nofollow">in the case that you have analysed.