Revised Group Project Proposal

Jason Liu, Shawn Nirody, Tim Brown, Paulo Fonseca

Additions and revisions to the project proposal after reading the peer feedback:

First, we’d like to answer some questions that were posed in our group’s peer review.  Regarding the “blanket policy” of our  project proposal, we mean that it is difficult to address all the different groups: industry, government, and universities, in a single approach. Rather than trying to approach all the different groups and bringing them together, we believe it is more feasible to approach the groups individually. By targeting select groups, for example, by targeting individual students or small research groups/engineering teams within each of these larger agglomerates, it is more likely for the people targeted to respond to our message. If we targeted a large, mixed population with a single message, the individuals within those populations might not feel so inclined to respond or reply because they might feel their response will be drowned out because there are so many other peoples’ opinions to consider. Therefore, by using different scenarios to target specific groups, we might be able to elicit a better response from our target audience.

Regarding the comment on most professionals’ ethical training, we believe most trained workers in the technical fields do have a significant amount of exposure to ethical issues related to their work. However, we believe that the breadth of this exposure is not very wide because most professionals will only have the interest and time to learn about ethical issues within their own field. Therefore, most professionals, although they may be well versed with ethics and morality within their own division, such as within government work, industry work, or university work, they might be very ignorant of how ethical issues are taken into account in other fields. Therefore, we believe it is important for students and professionals to consider learning some amount of ethics related to other areas of work.

To distribute our flyer, we would like to place them in areas of high engineering and science student traffic. For example, handing out flyers in front of Le Conte, in Cory, Etchtevery, etc. is our plan. We do wish to reach out to all the engineering and science students because we wish for every technically minded person to be aware of ethics outside of their own area of work.

One thought on “Revised Group Project Proposal

  1. Nice job explaining your answers the questions and comments that were posed by students/instructors. However, the next step to receive a re-grade would be to re-write your proposal while incorporating these comments within.

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