[IEEE-KC & MSPE] ENGINEERING ETHICS
Dinner meeting providing (1) Personal Development Hour in Engineering Ethics.
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- Date: 24 Oct 2019
- Time: 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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- 9450 Ward Parkway
- Kansas City, Missouri
- United States 64114
- Building: 9450
- Room Number: Auditorium
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Gregory L Elliott (gregory.elliott@evergy.com)
- Co-sponsored by Kavita Lal
- Starts 20 September 2019 07:30 AM
- Ends 21 October 2019 06:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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Speakers
Robynn Andracsek
Engineering Ethics - Kansas City Skywalk Collapse
https://www.nist.gov/node/603536?pub_id=908286
http://www.enr.com/articles/38400-why-engineers-must-remember-the-kansas-city-hyatt-tragedy
Biography:
Robynn Andracsek, P.E., is associate environmental engineer for Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co., based in Kansas City, and a freelance writer. She can be reached at randracsek@burnsmcd.com.
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Agenda
Until the events of 9/11, the skywalk collapse at the former Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Mo., was the most devastating structural failure ever in the U.S. in terms of loss of life and injuries—and the cause was a direct result of engineers who violated their ethical code. Listen to the story behind this engineering disaster and learn how two engineers behaved with “conscious indifference” toward their professional duties resulting in the death of 114 people and the injury of another 216 people. The lessons of the skywalk collapse remain relevant to today’s engineers and architects.