Engineering Ethics Cross Impact Term paper proposal
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
Background:
In your Cross Impact Analysis Term Project, you are asked to analyze an example of academic misconduct or research fraud. CBS News reports that a review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage of studies withdrawn because of fraud or suspected fraud has jumped substantially since the mid-1970s. In 1976, there were fewer than 10 fraud retractions for every 1 million studies published, compared with 96 retractions per million in 2007. Fraud was the No. 1 cause of retractions, accounting for 43 percent of them. When fraud was combined with other areas of misconduct, such as plagiarism, it explained about 2 out of 3 retractions, the study found. prominent retractions cited for fraud include a notorious British study that wrongly linked childhood vaccines to autism, nine separate studies on highly touted research at Duke University about cancer treatment, and work by a South Korean cloning expert who later was convicted in court of embezzlement and illegally buying human eggs for research.
You are given considerable latitude with respect to the example of academic misconduct or research fraud you choose for analysis. If possible it should be relevant to your discipline but your topic may also relate to fraud in leading edge research or technology.
You will submit your topic proposal using the Cross Impact Analysis SafeAssign Link below. It should be approximately 200-300 words long and include a brief description of the misconduct or fraud you have chosen along with a statement about why this topic is important and relevant to engineering ethics. You should state the objective of your analysis. References are not required for the proposal. The proposal will allow me to give you helpful feedback before you undertake the Cross Impact Analysis.
Submit your proposal as either a Word document or PDF file using the link below. . Be sure the document includes your name and R number. Be sure to look for feedback via Blackboard MyGrades. Your proposal is 5% of your final grade.
In your Cross Impact Analysis Term Project, you are asked to analyze an example of academic misconduct or research fraud. CBS News reports that a review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage of studies withdrawn because of fraud or suspected fraud has jumped substantially since the mid-1970s. In 1976, there were fewer than 10 fraud retractions for every 1 million studies published, compared with 96 retractions per million in 2007. Fraud was the No. 1 cause of retractions, accounting for 43 percent of them. When fraud was combined with other areas of misconduct, such as plagiarism, it explained about 2 out of 3 retractions, the study found. prominent retractions cited for fraud include a notorious British study that wrongly linked childhood vaccines to autism, nine separate studies on highly touted research at Duke University about cancer treatment, and work by a South Korean cloning expert who later was convicted in court of embezzlement and illegally buying human eggs for research.
You are given considerable latitude with respect to the example of academic misconduct or research fraud you choose for analysis. If possible it should be relevant to your discipline but your topic may also relate to fraud in leading edge research or technology.
You will submit your topic proposal using the Cross Impact Analysis SafeAssign Link below. It should be approximately 200-300 words long and include a brief description of the misconduct or fraud you have chosen along with a statement about why this topic is important and relevant to engineering ethics. You should state the objective of your analysis. References are not required for the proposal. The proposal will allow me to give you helpful feedback before you undertake the Cross Impact Analysis.
Submit your proposal as either a Word document or PDF file using the link below. . Be sure the document includes your name and R number. Be sure to look for feedback via Blackboard MyGrades. Your proposal is 5% of your final grade.