Course Description
Relationship of society to safety and environmental aspects of manufactured products. Quantifying manufacturing risks. Protective methods, e.g. administrative, engineering, personal, treatment, pollution prevention. Social factors, e.g. political, regulatory, legal, consumer attitudes, public policy, perceptions. Understanding complex social issues, especially situations with conflicting goals. Critical comparison of options for risk reduction, and selecting reasonable (hopefully optimal) courses of action in complex and uncertain situations. Unsolved problems of industry and society (e.g. greenhouse effect). Relationships of ethics, laws and regulations to manufacturing.
DE Program
BS Textiles Off-Campus Programs
Summer I 5W 2022
Instructors
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
May 18, 2022
Classes End:
June 22, 2022
Room Number:
[TBA]
Class Days:
[TBA]
Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3.00
Restrictions:
None
