Ethics

Professor Loui gave a lecture on ethics. He covered the basic does and don't when looking at education, jobs, and engineering especially. He discussed the basic principles that cheating is the same as stealing and should never be done. Personal patents and those owned by companies are a large focus of engineering ethics. He also addressed different conflict examples, such as an engineer at GM who gets a job for Ford would not be allowed to give his knowledge that he gained at GM to Ford as GM owns his patents and knowledge from his employment at GM. The ethics lesson was very informative but was far to short as he made obvious at the end by selling a list of different ethics classes we can take.