SENG4921: Professional Issues and Ethics
Lectures
Venue: Rupert Myers (K-M15-G90)
Time: Monday 1200–1400
Lectures may not be given every week.
- Week 1 (February 27)
Ken Robinson, Peter Ho & Wayne Wobcke
Course discussion
Finalisation of seminars- Week 2 (March 5)
Stephen Cohen
School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
Director, Graduate Programs in Professional Ethics
Will give part 1 of a talk on ethics and professionalism
“Theoretical Underpinnings of Ethics”
Stephen Cohen is the managing director of Denise Grannall & Associates. He consults with a number of large government and private companies on ethics.
- Week 3 (March 12)
Stephen Cohen
School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
presents part 2 of his talk on Ethics and Professionalism
Moral Reasoning & Professional Ethics
- Week 4 (March 19)
Ken Robinson
Ariane 5 Disaster
On 4th June 1996 the maiden flight of Ariane 5 was aborted soon after lift off.
It could be said that the failure was due to a software error in a small piece of code.
At one level of analysis that is perfectly correct, but there was more, much more …
- Week 5 (March 26)
Wayne Wobcke
Risk Assessment in Sociotechnical Systems
- Week 6 (April 2)
Beth Fleming
The Association of Professional Engineers Scientists and Managers, Australia) (APESMA)
Professionalism and Engineering Graduates
The presentation gives students and industrial overview of the mechanisms that regulate employment, outlines graduate salaries, provides tips on finding graduate employment and provides an understanding of employment contracts and professional obligations.
- Midsession break (April 9) No lecture
- Week 7 (April 16)
Peter Ho
Introduction to Law and Contracts
- Week 8 (April 23)
Brendan Scott
Principal, Open Source Law
The Hows, Whys and Wherefores of Open Source -
Open source as a market reaction to regulation of the software industry- Week 9 (April 30)
Peter Ho
Introduction to Torts
- Week 10 (May 7)
David Vaile
Executive Director, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW
Legal perspectives on system development — Liability, litigation risk, ’professional’ standards, and ethics
David Vaile is the Executive Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, one of UNSW Law Faculty’s Social Justice centres which looks at public interest aspects of networked transactions including IT, Internet regulation, intellectual property, privacy and e-commerce.
- Week 11 (May 14) No lecture
- Week 12 (May 21)
Stuart Irvine and ??
Freehills Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys
Intellectual Property and Software Patents:
Overview of intellectual property and what it means.
Patents, as the form of intellectual property most useful to software engineers will then be considered in more depth, particularly the requirements for being granted a patent and the protection offered by a patent. Patent issues particular to software engineering/computer programs etc will be discussed here as well.
A look at the use of patents as a business tool — providing a business perspective of why patents are useful and how to go about maximising their value.
- Week 13 (May 28)
David Vaile
Executive Director, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW
“Malware, Filtering and WiFi snooping and government responses to consumer-level misbehaviour”
PIPA/SOPA bills and online campaign reaction, and thinks like ACTA and the likely fallout from iiNet case in HCA, whenever it is delivered, probably triggering calls for new protections for IP owners.