I believe that while ethics are very important, they are not something students will need to take into account during our capstone projects. In the case studies assignment, the common theme between the disasters was that people’s lives were lost due to the decisions made. I don’t think that students will be creating something life-threatening if done incorrectly. Ethics don’t only have to do with life or death, but I don’t think students will be working in an unsafe environment or lying about data either, or any other ethically-questionable act. However, the information we learned in regards to ethics is important, and those of us who become engineers later in life will certainly need to know it. Finally, some information in this unit we probably will use during our capstone project. Despite the unit being called Ethics in Engineering, a large portion of it was on simple machines and the equations related to them. I believe this will be much more helpful to our capstone projects.

Besides that, I’ve been busy with my AP classes and I should probably get back to studying. I have a psychology test tomorrow, after all.