Would you imagine a situation where an engineer could not, concurrently, hold paramount the health and safety and welfare of the public?
Question 3-8. Suppose you wre taking a course on engineering calculations and were given the following problem to solve: According to the statement of the Draeger Works in Luebeck, in the gassing of the whole population in a city, only 50% of the evaporated poison gas is effective. The atomosphere must be posioned up to a height of 20 meters at a concentration of 45 mg/m^3. How much phosgene is needed to posion a city of 50,000 inhabitants who live in an area of 4 square kilometers? (This problem cmes from a German high school textbook published in the late 1930s.) Would you solve the problems? Why or why not? Are there engineering problems that you would not want to solve? If so, why not?
