Vinniax Background In your Social Impact Analysis (SIA) Capstone Paper, you are asked to analyze a contemporary or leading-edge design, product, or concept (DPC). The best approach is to choose a DPC that has not yet been fully deployed and analyze its potential positive and negative social impacts. These include not only physical impacts (e.g. human health) but psychological, social, cultural, environmental, and financial impacts as well. The analysis entails looking forward and trying to make a well-reasoned case for or against the DPC in question. You are allowed a fair amount of flexibility with respect to the topic you choose. It should be relevant to your discipline and feature a contemporary DPC which can include novel applications of well-established technologies Your topic proposal should be approximately 200-300 words long and include a brief description of the DPC you have chosen along with a statement about why this topic is important and relevant to engineering ethics.

Topics you can choose from : 3D Printing Technology Applied to Building Construction - Academic Fraud in Engineering and Scientific Publications - Artificial Intelligence for Supply Chain Management - Autonomous (Self-Driving) Vehicles - Backdoor Government Access to Encrypted Communications and Devices - Bioengineered Tissue and Organs - Carbon Sequestration for Coal Fired Electrical Power Plants - Choosing the Best Technologies to Cheat - Customer Owner Solar Technology Attached to Electrical Grids - Deep Ocean Drilling - Designer Drug Technology - Digital Currencies: Bit Coins - Earth Quake Resistant Buildings - Electric Vehicle Technology - Ethical Hacking - Ethics of a Manned Mars Expedition - Ethics of Alternative Energy - Ethics of Armed Autonomous Military Robots and Drones - Ethics of Automating Highly Skilled, High Paying Jobs - Ethics of Face Recognition Technology - Ethics of the Dark Internet - Genetically Engineered Crops - Google’s World Wide Internet Access - Green Concrete - High Tech Farming - Hydraulic Fracking Using Fluids Other Than Water - Legal Liability of Self-Driving Vehicles - Low Energy Salt Water Desalination - Nanotechnology Health Care - Self-Healing Concrete - Self-Healing Materials for Aircraft Construction - Small Footprint Nuclear Power Plants - Smart Electrical Grids - Solar Highway Technology - Wearable Technology: Google Glass -