CE 480 – Case Studies and Team Assignments

Spring 2007

 

date                             team                                        case study                  

 

9 Jan                Mount                                                  introduction

 

16 Jan              Mount                                                  video – water pollution and ethics

 

23 Jan              Mount                                                  space shuttle disaster and engineers

 

30 Jan              Mount                                                  space shuttle disaster and ethics

 

6 Feb               Soria/Fitts/Plahuta                                 sexual harassment in the workplace

                        Jackson/Earl/Finlayson              gifts of a complementary seminar

 

13 Feb             Mayfarth/Sondergaard/Turner   suspected hazardous waste

                        Dao/Truong/Shafiet                               client request for secrecy

 

20 Feb             Shelton/Thorson/Wachob                     whistle blowing city engineer

                        Withers/Erickson/Van Wie                    TV antenna collapse

 

27 Feb             Jordan/Dorsey/Fjelstad             private work after public employment

                        Aguilar/Pak/Yelle                                  refusal to sign construction documents

 

6 March           Dr. Dolan                                             building codes

 

20 March         Gohl/Eng/Hurst                         protest of low fee proposal

                        Arendt/Avetisyan/Tung             signing off on drawings

 

27 March         Davis/Kinney/Beireis                             Gilbane Gold

 

3 April              Hanus/Kindt/Mjelde                             BP oil leak at Prudoe Bay

                        Chambers/Judd/Campbell                     knowledge of damaging information

 

10 April            university lawyer                                   codes and the law

 

17 April            Milcarek/Brewer/Vu                             Quebec Bridge Disaster

                        Lei/Loebsack/Worthen             shoddy work protest

 

24 April            Wada/Khaleghi/Brown             ASME vs Hydrolevel