Laboratory Experiments
Laboratory 1: Cellular Phones and Cancer
Purpose: This case illustrates the problems that engineers have in dealing with and managing the unknown. Many of the designs that engineers produce are experimental in nature or deal with effects that aren’t fully understood. It is incumbent on the designer to be informed about the potential risks to users of their designs and to seek to minimize these risks to the extent possible for the General Public.
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Laboratory 2: The Law and Ethics of High-Frequency Trading
Purpose: In this Case Study (Option-A) Laboratory 2, we will explore how Fiber Optic Technology was used (or rather misused) not to bring the much needed Broad Band Connectivity to those in dire need of high speed internet in Urban and Rural communities, but rather to create a secret High Speed Network in the Financial Trading market , giving a sinister advantage to what is known as High Frequency Traders which lead to the eventual Wall Street Meltdown2010 (google to read more). Due mainly to the publication of Michael Lewis, FlashBoys, theAmerican public is once again concerned with the question of the fairness of the financial marketplace. Lewis specific charge is that the stock market is a rigged game, with high-frequency traders preying upon more traditionalMain Street investors and the institutional investors.
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