paper
ECS 392
Fall 2017
PAPER 2
(Detals)
Date due: Monday, September 25, at 10:00 pm (via Turnitin)
Length: 600 to 700 words.
Topic: First, read the following article:
http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Media/59Story.pdf
Then, in your paper, please address the following questions:
1. In the story related in this article, what were the key ethical (or moral) choices made by the structural engineer William LeMessurier.
2. Although, of course, we cannot know for sure, what seem to have been his motives in making the critical choices he did? In other words, why do you think he made the various key ethical choices he made?
3. When we look at LeMessurier’s actions through the “lens” of the NSPE Code of Ethics (Introduction to Engineering Ethics, pp. 250-251), what professional engineering obligations did he fulfill—and and how did his actions fulfill them?