ECE2210
Engineering Ethics
F11
There are many professional aspects to being an engineer and one of the areas is
engineering ethics. An engineer must understand the responsibilities and principles
needed to make ethical decisions. For this assignment you are to write a one page paper
on the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 and the series of failures resulting in the death
of twenty-one people.
The paper is to be one page, double spaced with standard margins. Site any sources used
and include a reference page. When citing a webpage as a reference the proper format is
as follows:
Author. Publication Date. Web Page Title. URL
Example:
Wikipedia.org. Jan 17 2011. Early Effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_effect
Include a brief description of the disaster. Discuss the failures in engineering and process.
Lastly include suggestions that would possibly have diverted this disaster.
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