• Table of contents
• Ethical and Professional Responsibilities Worksheet
• Instructions
  • Individual worksheet
  • Team Appendix
  • Example
• Tips
  • Submission

Ethical and Professional Responsibilities Worksheet¶

Your project could impact the world beyond its immediate scope.

Instructions¶

Individual worksheet¶

Each student uses export:template documents\Ethical and Professional Responsibilities Worksheet - RCSID.docx and completes the table by indicating the impact of your solution on various ethical and professional issues. Add a paragraph that describes how you addressed these issues in your engineering decisions. If you feel that a particular issue does not apply to your project, explain how you reached that conclusion. Next, you must individually upload your worksheet to the Repository working/Reports.

Team Appendix¶

Review the individual submissions and combine the thoughts into Appendix C of the Final Design Report.

Example¶

Table 1. Example Ethical and Professional Responsibilities Table

Issues	Impact, 1(low) – 5(high)	Description of Impact and Related Project Decisions
Global	4	EU-based users can use our web tool. Our design met some of the European Union GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). For more information, see Chapter 4 System Requirements. We chose concept 1 because it included multi-language support and conformed to the GDPR.
Economic	5	Providing a cost-effective means to convert otherwise low-value wood to valuable fuel supports forest economies by providing additional income to landowners and the forestry industry in general. We developed concepts 5 & 6 to support the forest economies.
Environmental	5	Although the product cost was slightly increased, sustainable materials were used in the design to protect the environment. Refer to the information in Chapter X. Due to the importance of this, we selected the more expensive materials.
Societal	2	Our product provides opportunities for families to communicate in novel ways when they can’t otherwise be together, enhancing family bonds. As the team feels that the impact of this on our prototype is low, we chose to document the needs and requirements that we discovered but not to use those to down-select from our concepts. Future teams may want to revisit this.

Tips¶

• Be mindful of the Late_Policy policy.
• Be mindful of Design Lab's Generative_AI policy.

Submission¶

Worksheet table should be committed to the Repository - /working/Reports AND then combined with team into Appendix of System Design Report.