Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Edna Bonelli
04/01/2024
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Very interesting and informative.
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Paul S
12/27/2023
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An interesting study of an iconic building.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Rich Stevens, P.E.
12/04/2023
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An interesting conflict between the canons of ethics of the NSPE. An interesting read as well. Thanks.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
David Manning
09/04/2023
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One of the more interesting case studies concerning engineering ethics.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Kris Berthold
07/06/2023
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I thought this was an excellent case study. Prior to this course, I was unaware of any issues related to the Citicorp Tower, probably because nothing ever blew up or collapsed. Goes to show the importance of double checking your work and challenging your assumptions. Interesting ethical quandaries, indeed.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Haywood Bowden
05/27/2023
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Excellent course that shows the difficulties engineers face in the Ral world.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Sergio Fagundo
05/03/2023
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Very helpful and points out the conflict engineers sometimes face in going "above and beyond" balancing life safety and developer pressures. It also shows the benefit of working with a knowledgeable property owner.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Case histories are always a good way to establish " lessons learned " to avoid errors in future projects
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Cory Young
01/05/2023
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Very interesting case study. Excellent instruction.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Wade Brown
12/28/2022
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Very well written. Excellent Course and interesting
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Very interesting real world case, ethics are rarely black and white and this study showed those areas requiring additional consideration.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Albert Mill
10/16/2022
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Brief review of a potentially catastrophic situation with excellent questions to ponder.
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Jose Meruelo
09/07/2022
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Very challenging and interesting subject.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Houshang ansari
08/31/2022
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Excellent course material and subject.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Walter Carpenter
08/21/2022
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Great course to show the importance of making the appropriate calculations especially when using new techniques or methods
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Matthew Kelley
08/02/2022
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Interesting case to review.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Christopher P Rahaim
06/27/2022
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Excellent choice for case study not only from weighing the ethical dilemma, but demonstration of how important information especially for a new design should be shared.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Daniel
06/01/2022
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Very interesting case study that reflects how to weigh the cannon of ethics
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Paul B Johnson
05/27/2022
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interesting case study, well presented
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Karen
04/04/2022
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Very interesting and well presented.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Tom Ruggiero
03/02/2022
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The situation itself was confusing. A few of the questions could have been argued eithe way, but ultimately, this was a very good course and case study.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
LRS
02/06/2022
Verified Buyer
This was certainly an interesting topic and very appropriate to demonstrate the hard decisions which might have to be made in major projects such as the CitiCorp. Tower. A few of the questions were in the same perhaps, contradictory category as the ethic issues in the case. I very much enjoyed this course.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Dick Mollicone
02/05/2022
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A somewhat sketchy approach to a potential catastrophe averted. More logic re the canons would be helpful. Course spurred me to read other literature on the subject.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Brenda Moore
12/30/2021
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Excellent ethics example. Really enjoyed this one.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
William J Pehush
12/13/2021
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It was informative and added to my knowledge base. Something like substituting bolting for welded connections happens from time to time.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Prafulla Patel
12/09/2021
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Article was well described. Students with
less English knowledge will have hard time interpreting to some of the answers. to the questions.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Marc Worth
12/08/2021
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Interesting case that I hadn't heard of. Does cover some very interesting concerns.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Excellent course on ethics. Well presented and a real thinker.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Stephen Denton
11/04/2021
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One of the more in depth and though provoking discussions of colliding regulatory and ethical issues in engineering design.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Henry M Bellagamba
10/31/2021
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Good course
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Julie Williams
07/23/2021
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This was an interesting course that discusses ethics questions.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Charles Kennedy
07/22/2021
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Good course, food for thought. Shows the wisdom of going the extra mile in design considerations. Also shows the rise of hard problems, as in being perfectly truthful vs. causing panic
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Steven Banyai
06/05/2021
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As a lifelong New York City resident the Citicorp Building has been a constant in my day to day experiences since its opening. Yet I had no idea about the risky design issues surrounding its early history. As a mechanical engineer, while I have faced ethical issues, they have generally not been quite so dramatic. This brief course is not only revealing, but I found it riveting!
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
James Foster
03/28/2021
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Good presentation of facts, overlooked design issues and a proper to solution to make the structure safe and questionable decisions by the engineer.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Roman Roman
03/01/2021
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It seamed to me that some of the exam questions were not clear black/white, but were open to subjective interpretations. Some reference the code of ethics, but I could not find in the code corresponding text.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Emerson Raulerson
02/25/2021
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It was an interesting case to read about and instructive regarding how opposing responsibilities and real world situations can potentially lead to less than optimal decisions. However, the "answer" to question #7 is not absolute based on the information provided. . . .
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
02/22/2021
Verified Buyer
Some of the questions did not seem to be covered in the course description. The course content was interesting and certainly pertinent to engineering ethics.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Robert Good
02/20/2021
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Makes one think of how to coordinate all the ethical matters, and how to deal with conflicts. Should consulting engagements have a separate ethical evaluation by third party and/or peer reviews for such novel engagements... it is hard sometimes to see the entire picture when in the middle of all the details of an exciting and novel assignment. And, did the government miss this too - why have government check plans if they fail to find any overarching flaws - again the focus lacked an overall assessment of the novel design and to manage risks by all parties.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
02/19/2021
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Interesting case study for a structural engineer.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
GREG KLEBANOFF
02/02/2021
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The course did really only take one hour and promoted in depth thought.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Jenni Hiscock
01/23/2021
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Interesting case in building design.
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Review of: The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Patrick
01/18/2021
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Good example of ethical challenges facing engineers
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Thomas
01/08/2021
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Course models high bar for PE's to emulate; and was engaging and challenging.
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Lawrence Lippert
01/05/2021
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I thought the presentation paper was well done but several questions were misleading. I actually question the answer to #5, . . . Once the engineer recognized the design was novel, the approval, without the proper calculations, was not appropriate. Thanks.
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The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ehics and Disaster Averted
Tom Card
01/04/2021
Verified Buyer
If you need points in ethics, take this course! This was a "fun" project in that it revealed things about the Citicorp structure that I had not known. The basic structural design is innovative and fascinating, the astuteness of the architectural student commendable, the corrective structural and safety remedies taken revealing, and the ethical issues thought provoking.
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Kenneth P Menzie
01/03/2021
Excellent description of the professional ethical issues involved in this project. Thought provoking material that is helpful in all engineering projects
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D W Edwards
12/30/2020
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This is a good example of doing the right thing, especially when it is hard. The first responsibility of an engineer is to determine what can go wrong, and to allow for that, that is not always easy to do. This is why engineers need to be licensed.
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Good Summary
12/29/2020
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Pertinent case that illustrates some of the ethical challenges encountered by practicing engineers. Some test questions were tricky.
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Ben
12/28/2020
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Good example to study and remember.
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Peter Walls
12/28/2020
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This is an interesting course. The questions for the course are not well thought out nor is there enough information provided.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Clint Stewart
12/08/2020
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Very informative and thought provoking.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Robert Suarez
12/07/2020
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Very important to review and example of the real world ethics!
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Brian Mitsch
12/06/2020
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As a 1 CPD course this was good. If the course were to be done for more CPD's, details of the engineering would be good to include.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Very educational & highly recommended.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Robert Marshall Hayhurst
11/13/2020
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Excellent. Made me think.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Leroy Pacheco, PE
11/12/2020
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Interesting - ethical dilemmas are complex.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Ben
11/09/2020
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Interesting and thought provoking.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
11/08/2020
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Course material needs some editing. Questions are confusing. The author's writing is not very clear.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Nathan Yost
10/16/2020
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This was an interesting course and raised some good questions regarding balancing competing ethical expectations.
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RAFAT A AL NAKKASH
09/20/2020
Verified Buyer
It appears that the answers to the questions are not what the real story has told so the questions are misleading. The entire story can be written in one page only, too much talking does not serve the purpose especially for engineers.
Dr. Doing, please understand that engineers needs the direct point and less talking.
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Richard Ripley
09/20/2020
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Tough decision - probably would not have the same outcome today
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
The course captures the nuances of ethics. A pursit might say that given the fact that the building was nominally unsafe, why weren't both the building and the buildings in adjacent blocks evacuated for the months during which the building was being made safe? Does the effect of the TMD actually mitigate all of the understrength? It's unclear from the text whether the building was actually safe under just gravity loads.
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Theodore McAnlis
08/25/2020
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It was an interesting real case departure from the typical ethics course, and like the ethics of the situation, not all of the answers to the test questions were that obvious.
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FREDDY GONZALEZ
08/22/2020
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Good Course!! Challenging if you are not civil. The wording confusion in the question is part of the challenge but, very wise is our day day duties as engineers.
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Ali Khan
08/19/2020
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Well designed course.
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James Martin
07/28/2020
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Good ethics subject with interesting situations.
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James Babb
07/19/2020
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Have to wonder how all of the details of the modification of the Citicorp tower were acquired. With all of the cover-up activities, it is remarkable that the author was able to piece together this report. If memory serves me correctly, a similar event took place in Boston on the John Hancock building.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Tad Goetcheus
07/18/2020
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excellent description and case study
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Vernon Shields
06/24/2020
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5-star excellent
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Cesar Rodriguez
06/23/2020
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Excellent Information - easy to follow...
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Bernard J Hudson
06/22/2020
Verified Buyer
The course was relevant and interesting. It is a good case study for ethics that I had not heard before. The fall of the World Trade towers adds attention to this story. The course was clear about the roles of all the parties. It included enough technical information to be interesting to engineers.
Question on test - LeMessurier’s firm's approval of the switch to bolts instead of welds also included the mistake of the calculation of the number of bolts. For that reason, the approval was not correct at the time.
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Walter Robert Campbell
05/02/2020
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This course was well written. It really made me think about the ethical issues presented.
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Very interesting
David Fantina
04/26/2020
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A good review of a sticky ethical situation.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Charles Keith Wishmeiee, P.E.
04/07/2020
Verified Buyer
This course was very interesting as the ethical issues were somewhat grey. In 1977 I had been out of college six years and was one year before starting my own structural engineering business in 1978. Cudos to the student engineer who discovered the problem. I doubt that I would have. Cudos to LeMessurier for blowing the whistle on himself.
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Peter Pupparo
04/01/2020
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Was not aware of the ethical issues surrounding this building, very useful real life example
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Diego Alaimo
03/30/2020
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The course was very informative
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional Ethics and Disaster Averted
Richard K Lowe
03/29/2020
Verified Buyer
Course material is educational and informative. Explanation of correct answer to test question #7 confirms incorrect answer is "correct". Test Q #8 requires 7-sentence explanation that is legal mumbo jumbo.
We hear you! We have revised questions 7 & 8.
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Herbert Donner
03/28/2020
Verified Buyer
The course was both interesting and informative.
There is however a typo on page 8. "The decision to switch from bolts to welds..." should be reversed as the decision to change from "welds to bolts" led to the dangerous situation.
Typo fixed. Thanks.
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Well done!
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Sherry Ann Durst
03/28/2020
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Excellent, informative, and interesting
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373-The Citicorp Tower: Professional <b>Ethics</b> and Disaster Averted
Larry Lasiter
03/27/2020
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Questions are misleading and confusing and hair-splitting! Not impressed.
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