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From: mxs@hal.UUCP (Marcos Salganicoff)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy
Subject: the defense industry and the graduating engineer.
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Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 21:35:31 EST
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[munch me tender, munch me sweet...]

As a soon to be graduating engineer (E.E. in my case) I have begun to
interview with various companies, some doing more defense oriented than
others. I have a hard time tangling with some of the ethics involved in
the design of weapons of any kind and what my social responsibility is
as an engineer. Except for various conversations with miscellaneous fellow
students, I have never heard of any formal conference or course at any
university dedicated to this issue. Several people have mentioned it in
passing, but I doesn't seem to be as important as the money to many people.

Could anyone recommend any good starting points for me?

		    thanks in advance,


		       -Marcos (decvax!cwruecmp!hal!mxs)