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Venue: Civil Engineering Lecture Theatre G1 (H20-G1)
Time: Tuesday, 10.00 - 12.00
Lectures may not be given every week.
Oral exam discussion
Introduction to Professional Issues and Ethics course for 2008.
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.
presents part 2 of his talk on Ethics and Professionalism
“Moral Reasoning & Professional Ethics”
“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.
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 …
Intellectual Property and software patents
“Legal perspectives on system development — Liability, litigation risk,
’professional’ standards, and ethics”
“Reasonable Foreseeability”
A talk about legal aspects of liabilities, and obligations that go under the banner of tort law.
“Censorship, Internet content classification, ISP-level filtering and the interests
of young people”
“The Hows, Whys and Wherefores of Open Source -
Open source as a market reaction to regulation of the software industry”