Ethics
Accuracy and Rigour
1. Always act with care and competence
Understand that with an automatic system, people are depending on it to do the right thing and if this goes wrong even on a small scale it can lead to injury or at worst death for people nearby, on our scale worst case will be minor injury due to electric shock or burn due to overexposure to the sheer smoldering intensity of our robot.
2. Perform services only in areas of current competence
When we are going to attempt a task we research it first so as to be sure we know exactly how to do it and what the current experts are using in that field.
3. Keep knowledge and skills up to date
Make sure if changes in the environment or bugs occur, the system is updated so it's running correctly and optimally. We shall also be publishing academic journals about all of the methods we are about to use so that no matter what our method will be the most up to date method.
4. Not knowingly mislead or allow others to be misled
Thorough checking of the system so it lives up to specification. We shall also no state any outright lies in our report such as us publishing academic journals, as that would be greatly misleading to our clients that we are presenting to (in this case our lecturers and lab technicians).
5. Present evidence accurately and without bias
All our evidence will be photographic and unedited so as to prove that we have never submitted woefully inaccurate information as we have previously in this document. Make sure all information needed to operate are known to all, safety is paramount.
6. Identify and evaluate risk where possible (RAE 2014, p.1).
Honesty and integrity
1. Be alert to the ways in which their work might affect others and respect the rights and reputations of other parties
Don't design anything offensive to specific groups of people, also to keep record of what design and programs we have used to base our design of off so as to give proper credit to the original author of the program or designer and not to use any code or design that we have not got permission from the creator or intellectual property owner of the original.
2. Avoid deceptive acts, take steps to prevent corrupt practices and misconduct – declare conflicts of interest
When working on the project we shall do our best to make sure we are not monopolizing equipment in the labs and preventing other teams from being able to complete their work because we are getting in the way. Don’t cheat, as we shall not need to because our superior design and programming will lead to an easy victory over the common rabble of the rest of the competitors that will be left to mourn their sorrowful losses to our might.
3. Reject bribery or improper influence
When we are inevitably offered a bribe to throw a match in order for another team to stand a chance against our far superior robot we shall not accept it as that would go against our values and engineers, unless it exceeds £50 per team member in which case it is fine.
4. Act for each employer or client in a reliable and trustworthy manner (RAE 2014, p.2).
We shall deliver what is expected of us to the client so as to prove our true trustworthiness to them and it shall be on time to show reliability and thus they will give us more money to do more things for them because they know we are good at it.
Sustainability
Respect for life, law and the public good
1. Ensure that all work is lawful and justified
The law surrounding our product has been thoroughly analyzed and taken into account when in the design process of our deliverables so as not to be arrested when we bring it outside. All design decisions we have made we had compared to an alterior option that when considered in depth were deemed to be suboptimal and hence we have arrived with the best design we believe to be possible with the resources that we possess.
2. Minimise and justify any adverse effect on society or the environment
We have(need to do) calculated the number of trees that would be necessary to plant to offset our carbon footprint from the electricity and materials that we have consumed in this project. Our robot will have no adverse effects on society as something this awesome can only conceivably have possibly have a positive effect on the lives of people that come into contact with it.
3. Take due account of the limited availability of natural and human resources
We considered the amount of time our team members had during the week to make sure that we did not place much stress on this project that it would have a negative impact on their other studies. By using the same prototype for the whole testing and development phase and only building a single final product at the end of the project we have saved a considerable amount of resources that could have been used to rebuild our robot many times rather than doing small repair jobs.
4. Hold paramount the health and safety of others
By using safety goggles when soldering and always making sure the extractor fan is on we have mitigated the risk of inhaling solder smoke and getting shards or sputter in our eyes when doing practical work, we also make sure all those trying to cheat be looking closely at our far superior robot as we are working on it are wearing safety goggles and wearing warm clothes to protect them from how cool it is.
5.Act honorably, responsibly and lawfully (RAE 2014, p.2)
okay, we will.