Topics to choose for report:

1. The Space Shuttle Columbia Failure 

2. Runway Concrete at the Denver International Airport (4)
3. Vice President Spiro Agnew and Construction Kickbacks in
Maryland (9)
4. The Crash of Valujet Flight 592 (11)
5. The Collapse of the Hyatt Regency Kansas City Walkways (13)
6. The Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (14)
7. The Failure of the Teton Dam (15)
8. The Tokaimura Nuclear Accident (19)
9. The Collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis (21)
10. The Japanese Nuclear Reactor Accident 
11.   Accidental Overdoses in Medical Radiation Therapy Systems
(26)
12. The Goodrich A7-D Brake Case (22)
13. The Kursk Russian submarine disaster
14. The DC-10 Case (16)

Case Analysis

1.       Identify the primary “ethical dilemma (or question)” in the case.

2.       Discuss the role that  Engineering played in creating the special

circumstances of the case.

3.       List the stakeholders in the case (and try to identify an important

“right” of each stakeholder).

4.       List and describe alternative courses of action that may be taken

and determine the likely consequences of each proposed action for
each stakeholder.

5.       From a teleological perspective which action is morally right?

Explain.

6.       Describe your normative recommendation in this case.  

7. Is this accident an engineered, procedural, or systemic accident? Is it
partly all three? 

8. Use one of the codes of ethics of the professional engineering

societies to analyze this case.

9.  Use the ethical theories—utilitarianism, duty and rights ethics, or

virtue ethics— to analyze this case

10  How could the accident have been avoided? 

Projects ( case study ) 

References: WWW.CITETHISFORME.COM

Www-ns.iaea.org. 2020. [online] Available at: <http://www-

.ns.iaea.org/downloads/iec/tokaimura-report.pdf> [Accessed 21 April 2020]
On the 11th of May afternoon in 1996 an emergency dispatcher in southern Florida got a
call from a man on a cellular phone. The caller said, "Yes. I am fishing at Everglades
".Holiday Park, and a large jet aircraft has just crashed out here. Large. Like airliner-size

THE CRASH OF VALUJET FLIGHT 592