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Title: La Jolla - Peaceful Promenade
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1991
Description: Watercolor painting of the coast of La Jolla in San Diego, California.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Risk-Benefit Analysis Concerning Public Safety and Health
Creator: Sagoff, Mark
Date: 2009, 1985
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module looks at the use of risk-benefit analysis to answer questions engineers often face when making decisions about public safety and...
Show moreThis module looks at the use of risk-benefit analysis to answer questions engineers often face when making decisions about public safety and health. It explains how risk-benefit analysis can be used in answering questions such as “how safe is safe enough?” and then defends the thesis that this form of analysis cannot provide answers to questions about public safety and health. While risk-benefit analysis offers guidance for policy decisions, it does not provide an adequate basis for reaching or for justifying these decisions. The module looks at the ethical basis and free market justification of this form analysis, and then looks at the practical methods that risk-benefit analysis employs and the difficulties faced in using these methods, such as the predictability of harmful events occurring, and the human factor. Includes bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2006, 1996
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Description: By "paradox" I mean an apparent- and in this case, real-inconsistency between theory (our systematic understanding of whistleblowing) and the...
Show moreBy "paradox" I mean an apparent- and in this case, real-inconsistency between theory (our systematic understanding of whistleblowing) and the facts (what we actually know, or think we know, about whistleblowing). What concerns me is not a few anomalies, the exceptions that test a rule, but a flood of exceptions that seem to swamp the rule. This paper has four parts. The first states the standard theory of whistleblowing. The second argues that the standard theory is paradoxical, that it is inconsistent with what we know about whistleblowers. The third part sketches what seems to me a less paradoxical theory of whistleblowing. The fourth tests this new theory against one classic case of whistleblowing, Roger Boisjoly's testimony before the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster (the "Rogers Commission"). I use that case because the chief facts are both uncontroversial enough and well-known enough to make detailed exposition unnecessary. For the same reasons, I also use that case to illustrate various claims about whistleblowing throughout the paper.
Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vo. 15, No.1. pp.3-19.
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Title: Technology Assessment : A Historical Approach
Creator: Cameron, Rondo, Millard, A.j.
Date: 2009, 1985
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the unique role engineers play in technology assessment; or the “process of discovering the potential benefits and risks...
Show moreThis module discusses the unique role engineers play in technology assessment; or the “process of discovering the potential benefits and risks of new technologies, weighing the social gains against the social costs, and then taking steps to influence the rate and direction of technological change.” This module deals with the ethical decisions of James Watt and his assessment of the steam engine, and Thomas Edison and his assessment of electricity. The module then looks at the more modern example of nuclear power, and shows the problems that arise when engineers fail to properly access the moral and ethical issues raised by the technologies they develop. Includes discussion questions and an annotated bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Whistleblowing : Ethical and Legal Issues in Expressing Dissent
Creator: Peterson, Farrell, Dan James C.
Date: 2009, 1986
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the history of whistleblowing and some of the ethical ethical dilemmas faced by whistleblowers, including the...
Show moreThis module discusses the history of whistleblowing and some of the ethical ethical dilemmas faced by whistleblowers, including the conflicting values of loyalty to one’s employer and protecting the public good, clashes between professional judgment and organizational authority, and the legal aspects of whistleblowing. It also includes a summary of the Browns Ferry Case (Weil, 1977) and discussion questions. Includes annotated bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: “Broader Impacts” or “Responsible Research and Innovation”? A Comparison of Two Criteria for Funding Research in Science and Engineering
Creator: Davis, Michael, Laas, Kelly
Date: 2013-10, 2013-10
Publisher: Springer
Description: Our subject is how the experience of Americans with a certain funding criterion, “broader impacts” (and some similar criteria) may help in...
Show moreOur subject is how the experience of Americans with a certain funding criterion, “broader impacts” (and some similar criteria) may help in efforts to turn the European concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into a useful guide to funding Europe’s scientific and technical research. We believe this comparison may also be as enlightening for Americans concerned with revising research policy. We have organized our report around René Von Schomberg’s definition of RRI, since it seems both to cover what the European research group to which we belong is interested in and to be the only widely accepted definition of RRI. According to Von Schomberg, RRI: “… is a transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products (in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society).” While RRI seeks fundamental changes in the way research is conducted, Broader Impacts is more concerned with more peripheral aspects of research: widening participation of disadvantaged groups, recruiting the next generation of scientists, increasing the speed with which results are used, and so on. Nevertheless, an examination of the broadening of funding criteria over the last four decades suggests that National Science Foundation has been moving in the direction of RRI.
Sponsorship: European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme grant number 321400.
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Title: Empirical Modeling of Public Safety to Voice Traffic to Aid Emergency Capacity
Creator: Taher, Tanim, Bacchus, Roger
Date: 2012-04-18, 2012-04-18
Description: An RF measurement system with high time resolution is implemented to determine the statistical characteristics of various channels in the Land...
Show moreAn RF measurement system with high time resolution is implemented to determine the statistical characteristics of various channels in the Land Mobile Radio bands. The applicability of simple statistical models to the observed data is investigated, as well as their validity over short and long periods of time. The results show that the statistics of the idle and holding times of communication on these channels vary significantly over time and demonstrate daily periodicity, requiring non-stationary models to accurately represent them. Over short durations of time however, conventional distributions such as the exponential and lognormal may adequately characterize the properties of these quantities, allowing convenient and compact representations of the data. Results based on empirical data are presented to quantify the probability of stationarity for voice traffic within a time span of given length. The findings are useful for network planning or streamlining, network simulation and modeling, and investigation of dynamic spectrum access.
Sponsorship: National Science Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Motorola, Cleversafe, Roberson & Associates LLC
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Title: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California
Description: Photograph of the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California, featuring two mosiac murals by Mary Henry on either side of the...
Show morePhotograph of the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California, featuring two mosiac murals by Mary Henry on either side of the building entryway. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mosaic mural for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, detail
Description: Photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph...
Show morePhotograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mosaic mural for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, detail
Description: Photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph...
Show morePhotograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mosaic mural for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, detail
Description: Photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph...
Show morePhotograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photograph identified as a work for hire or commission for Hewlett Packard by the donor. Date of photograph unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Heny with an unidentified mural, 1956
Date: 1956
Description: Photograph of artist Mary Dill Henry with an in-progress mural. Content description from Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art checklist for exhibition at...
Show morePhotograph of artist Mary Dill Henry with an in-progress mural. Content description from Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art checklist for exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Institute: "Archival photograph of Mary working on mural - 1956 - Between 1955 and 1962, Mary worked at numerous and highly miscellaneous free-lance assignments, from painting a billboard for a poodle kennel to choosing paints and wallpapers for an expensive subdivision. - For Maxwell's Coffee House restaurant in Los Angeles, she painted a series of small murals showing the coffee-growing process; a large mural for the Santa Clara County Courthouse depicted episodes from local history. - Toward the end of this period, her work grew more abstract, culminating in her large-scale mosaics for the entrance to the new Hewlett-Packard plant in Los Alto Hills, which is still exquisite and intact to this day." Title of mural unknown. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Henry, 1938
Date: 1938
Description: Photograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of...
Show morePhotograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts (then called the California School of Arts and Crafts). Inscription on verso reads "Mary Dill - 1938 C.C.A.C. Oakland." Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Henry, 1938
Date: 1938
Description: Photograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of...
Show morePhotograph of Mary Dill Henry taken in the same year that she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts (then called the California School of Arts and Crafts). Henry's inscription on verso reads "Graduation from Calif. College of Arts + Crafts in June 1938. Oakland. Mary Henry - or Dill, as my name was then." Photographer unknown, stamp on recto reads "McCullagh."
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: President Thomas L. Martin, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Date: 1974-1987
Description: Photograph of Illinois Institute of Technology President Thomas L. Martin, who served as President from 1974 to 1987. Photographer unknown....
Show morePhotograph of Illinois Institute of Technology President Thomas L. Martin, who served as President from 1974 to 1987. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Librarian Marilynn Collins and Frank Holloway in the Armour Research Foundation library, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1947-1949
Date: 1947-1949
Description: From caption in ARF News: "Librarian Marilynn Collins selects on of the library's 410 periodicals for Frank Holloway of Chemistry."...
Show moreFrom caption in ARF News: "Librarian Marilynn Collins selects on of the library's 410 periodicals for Frank Holloway of Chemistry." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Jay Doblin with his People Chair, 1960
Date: 1960
Description: Jay Doblin, then Dean of the Institute of Design, poses with his People Chair, and alumnimun chair designed as part of a campaign sponsored by...
Show moreJay Doblin, then Dean of the Institute of Design, poses with his People Chair, and alumnimun chair designed as part of a campaign sponsored by the Alcoa Corporation. Photographer and copyright holder unknown, assumed to be Alcoa.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

Title: Institute of Design students working in the product design workshop, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1950s
Date: 1950-1959
Description: From attached caption: "Belden Dunn and Hideo Koike are shown making basic parts for an experimental space platform in the product design...
Show moreFrom attached caption: "Belden Dunn and Hideo Koike are shown making basic parts for an experimental space platform in the product design workshop at the Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. A section of a bridge structure is shown in the foreground." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Konrad Wachsmann with Institute of Design students Maurene Strug and Shirley Courtois, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1954-1959
Date: 1954-1959
Description: From attached caption: "Konrad Wachsmann, professor of advanced building research at the Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of...
Show moreFrom attached caption: "Konrad Wachsmann, professor of advanced building research at the Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, explains principles of space-frame construction to students Maurene Strug and Shirley Courtois. A model of an open-air music shelter, designed b y an Illinois Tech graduate student for his master's thesis, and based on space-frame construction, is shown on the table." Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Armour Institute 1893, 1st football team
Date: 1893
Description: Photograph of the first football team of the Armour Institute of Technology, from Armour Institute classes of 1893 and 1894, page 16....
Show morePhotograph of the first football team of the Armour Institute of Technology, from Armour Institute classes of 1893 and 1894, page 16. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology records, 1893-1941

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