2. EXPERIMENTATION
The testing of an idea , a
controlled procedure carried
out to discover. It plays an
essential role in the design
process.
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3. Engineering projects can be viewed as
social experiments because the main
concern is the people, society and the
environment.
* Engineering projects are experiments
that involve technology development and
humans.
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4. • Primary obligation is to protect the
safety of human subjects and respect
their right of consent.
• A constant awareness of the
experimental nature of any
project, imaginative forecasting of its
possible side effects, and a
reasonable effort to monitor them.
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5. Engineering product design steps:
• Concepts
• Preliminary designs, tests
• More detailed designs
• More tests
• Production
• More tests
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6. • The public purchases/uses the product
• More test
• Role of profits/competition with other
companies
• More test
• Innovation
• Test
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7. Engineers learn from the past from
their own earlier designs and
operating results, as well as from
those of other engineers.
Moreover, from the lessons learned in
college or during the first
experimentation
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8. • Projects carried out in partial ignorance
• The final outcomes of engineering
projects, like those of experiments, are
generally uncertain.
• Effective Engineering relies upon
knowledge gained about products both
before and after they leave the
factory.
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9. • Experimental Control – Clients and
consumers exercise most of the control because it
is they who choose the products.
• Informed Consent – moral and legal rights
before participating in an experiment is not really
important
• 2 main elements : knowledge and voluntariness
• Knowledge Gained – scientific experiments
are conducted to gain new knowledge while
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10. Conscientiousness:
Respect right of consent of
public, honest and know what is
right and wrong
Comprehensive perspective:
Awareness of experimental nature
of projects, forecasting and
monitoring
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11. Moral autonomy:
Personally engaged, thoughtful,
involvement in project
Accountability:
Accept responsibility for results
of a project
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12. • Produce standards of professional
conduct
• Assurance to comply with standards
• Can support and defense their
experimentation
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13. • Uniformity of physical properties
and functions
• Safety and reliability
• Quality of Product
• Quality of Personnel and services
• Use of accepted procedures
• Separability
• Quality Procedures approved by ISO
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