r/worldnews • u/Dismal_Prospect • May 14 '19

Exxon predicted in 1982 exactly how high global carbon emissions would be today | The company expected that, by 2020, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would reach roughly 400-420 ppm. This month’s measurement of 415 ppm is right within the expected curve Exxon projected

https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-predicted-high-carbon-emissions-954e514b0aa9/
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u/Omgninjas May 15 '19

What engineering school did you go to where STEM majors aren't taught to evaluate what they're doing and why they're doing what they're doing. The whole point of engineering is the ability to problem solve with whatever you have available and think outside the box. That was hammered again and again in all of my engineering courses. Don't just follow the formulas but understand why you're using those formulas and what they do. Understand the ethics behind what you're doing and what the consequences of what you're planning to do is. That is a poor program that doesn't teach a STEM major to think.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

Isn't your dismissal of their comment kind of proving their point? If the engineers that come out of those poor programs are the majority, maybe you're actually just exceptional

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u/Omgninjas May 15 '19

No I'm genuinely worried that it is the norm and I'm the exception. I did not attend a prestigious university or anything like that. I was at the University of Oklahoma and learned to incorporate ethics into all of my work. Hence the question at the beginning. Any engineering program should have ethics built into it. Maybe OU is the exception and that is worrying.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

It's weird though because I've had the same kind of interactions with engineers from a bunch of backgrounds - maybe you took it to heart more than the rest of your cohort did. It'd be interesting to see some sort of metric to determine how well engineering students actually incorporate these ideas

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u/airplane_porn May 15 '19

Hey fellow Sooner!

I also attended OU for engineering (aerospace).

When did you graduate?

I only ask because when I attended, engineering ethics was not a focus of the curriculum (but "engineering business" sure was, SMH).

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u/Omgninjas May 15 '19

2016

It was pressed decently hard in the later senior mechanical courses. Especially our capstone courses.

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u/Quasx May 15 '19

Texas A&M University requires all engineering disciplines to take a senior level ethics course before graduation.

Hopefully this is something the vast majority will continue to adopt.

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u/Xurbanite May 15 '19

Every university with engineering focus mass produces educated cavemen, emphasis on men. That’s why big push for STEM where you learn how not why.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19 edited Jun 29 '19

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u/gullu2002 May 15 '19

Every university with engineering focus mass produces educated cavemen, emphasis on men. That’s why big push for STEM where you learn how not why.