Engineering Ethics: Crossing the Line (Ohio Timed & Monitored Video)

In Engineering Ethics: Crossing the Line , you'll learn ...

• Constructive ways to handle conflict
• The sources of conflict in an organization
• The different types of actions that cause conflict and damage relationships
• Skills such as active listening, paraphrasing, goal setting and problem solving

Overview

To meet the Ohio Board's intent that online courses be "paced" by the provider, a timer will be used to record your study time. You will be unable to access the quiz until the required study time of 40 minutes has been met.

Credit: 1 PDH

Duration: 40 minutes

In this course, you'll learn about the Ethics continuum and the disastrous results that can occur when engineers cross the line between ethical and unethical behavior. Several engineering disasters will be briefly discussed to illustrate the potential consequences of unethical behavior. Particular emphasis is placed on the Challenger disaster, where one of the engineers changed his position from “scrub the mission” to “launch” because of pressure from management.

You’ll also learn what makes up the culture of an organization, as well as the differences between human values and ethical values. Finally, you’ll be introduced to the speaker’s own ethical model: The Grubbs’ Ethical Model.

This is a video recording of a live seminar held April 21, 2017 as a part of the 2017 Tulane Engineering Forum, and is offered exclusively by PDHengineer by special arrangement with the engineering alumni of Tulane University and the Tulane School of Science and Engineering. This valuable information is presented by Jack Grubbs, PhD, PE, motivational and leadership speaker, and author of GrubbsStuff.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the elements that make up the culture of an organization.
• Distinguish the middle ground between inexpensive, unethical designs and expensive, highly ethical designs.
• Summarize the Hartford Civic Center roof collapse and the Kansas City Hyatt walkway collapse.
• Define the ethics continuum.
• Explain the circumstances surrounding the cause of the Challenger disaster.
• Describe the circumstances that led an engineer on the Challenger team to abandon his initial position and support the launch.
• Identify the NSPE Fundamental Canons.
• Describe the components of the Grubbs’ ethics model.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.