Impact of Engineering on Society

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As engineers, we design and implement technical solutions with the goal of improving people's lives, locally and globally. However, the technical solutions can have disparate impacts, in that they are beneficial to some people but less beneficial, or even detrimental, to others. What are our ethical and professional responsibilities to understand, consider, and perhaps address the disparate impacts of our work on the affected local and/or global populations? Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course. Counts as a Moral & Ethical Reasoning course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.