Contemporary Issues and Ethics

1. Your first short paragraph should provide context. If you are required to read a Sherlock Holmes story or a news story, you should summarize the main points of those items. This portion should be rather short—a quarter to a half a page.
2. The next paragraphs of each Response Journal should react to the reading or summary—asking questions, offering answers, clarifying, or problematizing anything discussed in the reading assignment. This part is difficult, but it is also the place where you demonstrate your critical thinking abilities. The point is to show me that you have not only read, but that you have paid attention, thought about, dissected, and learned from the material. Use your engineering problem-solving abilities to question and examine.
ABOUT THE TOPIC ** ( Response Journal 2: Contemporary Issues and Ethics ) **Response Journal 2 discusses a subject from the news that may pose an ethical problem for engineers. Summarize the subject, explaining how it poses an ethical problem. Go into detail analyzing why it is an ethical situation and what challenges or solutions you see for the problem. Remember to cite the source that you are referring to in your response. Be sure to use the standard citation/referencing system that Finkelstein recommends in Chapter 14 of PBTW or one that is used in your major. Failure to document these sources correctly will result in a grade of Unacceptable.