Macrofab Engineering Podcast

This week Parker and Stephen welcome Kent Johnson to the show to discuss ethics in engineering. It’s a topic that has been alluded to over the course of Circuit Break, but this is the first time Parker and Stephen have delved into it with a real expert on the matter. Yes, most companies have standards and regulations and a moral code that guide them but, as Kent suggests, there are more ethical gray areas in the realm of engineering than we might realize. Topics covered here include:Discovering something isn’t being done properly at your new jobAgreeing to work on something with life-or-death consequences, and you don’t really know what you’re doingBypassing important project safety tests to meet a deadlineCrediting others in an age of ChatGPT and redefinitions of plagiarismHow do you credit and use open source code?Why siloed departments at companies are causing such harm to work dynamicsThe tyranny of the specThe true dangers of “failure” or “gotcha” work culturesAccepting accountability and being willing t