Professional Responsibility in Engineering Practice
Monday, December 2, 6-7:30pm | HAMP 1144
Since the earliest days of the profession, engineers have recognized professional ethics as the cornerstone on which the profession is built. Given the profound impact of engineering works on humanity, it is crucial that engineers understand their responsibility to uphold and advance the public health, safety, and welfare even in circumstances when fulfilling this responsibility may come at a great personal cost.
Through personal experience including some of the engineering profession’s most notable ethics case studies, our distinguished panel of speakers will discuss the meaning and extent of an engineer’s professional responsibility, the importance of recognizing an ethical responsibility, and the challenges presented by issues including decision-making authority, imperfect knowledge, and other conflicting interests.
Sponsored by the United Engineering Foundation
Paul R. Munger |
Deborah Grubbe |
Allan J. McDonald |
Paul R. Munger, Ph.D., P.E., is professor emeritus of civil engineering at Missouri University of Science & Technology and director of business development for Morris and Munger Engineers, a division of Benton & Associates Inc. Dr. Munger has an over 50 year engineering career, launched by his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Missouri at Rolla (MST). He served continuously for over 41 years at MST, beginning as an Instructor and rising to Professor and Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, and subsequently to the present as Professor Emeritus.
Dr. Munger served 17 years on the Missouri Board for Professional Engineers, including serving as Chairman during its investigation of the circumstances of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in 1981, which killed 114 people and injured 212 others.
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Deborah Grubbe, P.E., C.Eng., is President of Operations and Safety Solutions. Formerly vice president of Group Safety for BP PLC, Ms. Grubbe oversaw the two safest years in BP's history during 2006 and 2007. She joined BP in 2005 after a 27-year career with DuPont, where she held corporate director roles in engineering, operations and safety. Ms. Grubbe is a former member of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, and was a consultant to the Columbia Shuttle Accident Investigation Board. Additionally, she is an Emeritus Member of the Centre for Chemical Process Safety, and regularly consults to prevent refinery and chemical plant incidents.
Ms. Grubbe earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue and was a Winston Churchill Fellow at the University of Cambridge, England. In 2010, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Purdue.
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Allan J. McDonald received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University in 1959 and an M.S. in Engineering Administration from the University of Utah in 1967; retiring in 2001 from ATK Thiokol Propulsion after a 42-year career with the company. He was the Director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project at the time of the Challenger accident and led the redesign of the solid rocket motors as Vice President of Engineering for Space Operations. Mr. McDonald received an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Montana State University in 1986, and is a Fellow member and a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Recently, Mr. McDonald co-authored the University Press of Florida book Truth, Lies, and O-rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster with Dr. James R. Hansen.
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