In: Electrical Engineering
Ethics and professional responsibility:
1. Who are electrical engineers professionally or ethically responsible to?
2. What are some of the responsibilities that electrical engineers have to these groups?
3. What pressures exist to tempt an electrical engineer to neglect their professional and ethical responsibilities?
4. What problems might result from diligently fulfilling your professional and ethical responsibilities in your work?
5. What problems might result from neglecting your professional and ethical responsibilities in your work?
6. Is it important for a professional society, like IEEE, to have a code of ethics? ________Why or why not?
Impact of engineering solutions:
7. Name some electrical engineering solutions or developments that have had a significant impact on society?
8. What were some of the benefits? In what ways were new problems created?
Contemporary Issues:
9. What are some of the most critical issues facing society today?
10. Do you think electrical engineers will be able to offer any help in resolving these issues?
11. What new technologies will be important for electrical engineers to be knowledgeable about over the next five years?