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Volume 7

Issue 3 – Spring 2024

• Space Colonization and Why Humanity is Better Off Not Pursuing It
  by Nakul Malik
• Developing the Road to Nowhere: Ethical Considerations of Highway Expansions
  by Karsyn Wendler
• Back to Our Roots: The Shift from Industrial Monoculture to Permaculture
  by James Hiemstra
• Real or Fake? The Ethics of Deepfake Media
  by Cameron Gomez
• War Games: How America’s Military-Entertainment Complex Spreads Propaganda Through Entertainment
  by Alex Tomkow

Issue 2 – Spring 2024

• Eyes in the Sky: Ethical Considerations of Commercial Satellite Surveillance
  by Rachel Pak
• Lost in Space: The Ethics of the Private Space Race
  by Anisha Palaparthi
• Ethics of Data Sharing and Digital Privacy 
  by Mary Karapetyan
• Balancing the Ledger: A Critical Examination of Cryptocurrency Ethics
  by Simon Lewis
• How Free is Freemium? An Analysis of the Ethics of the Freemium Model in Video Games
  by Navneeth Suresh

Issue 1 – Fall 2024

• Consciousness and the Self: A Philosophical Discussion of the Future of Whole Brain Emulation
  by Jennah Saqib
• To GEH or Not to GEH
  by Janessi Diaz
• An Ethical Exploration of Automating the Trucking Industry
  by Jacob Harrington
• Hostile Architecture: The Ethical Problem of Design as a Means of Exclusion
  by Zoe Nussbaum
• Great Stakes in the Great Lakes: Anthropocentrism and Biocentrism in Culling Asian Carp
  by Christopher Jewell

Volume 6

Issue 3 – Fall 2023

• The Grand Challenges: Authorial Particularism and a Lost Opportunity for an Equitable Society
  by Huzaifa Aslam
• Technological Determinism in the Grand Challenges
  by Thomas Peters
• The Lies We Tell to Inspire: Responding to the Engineering Double Standard
  by Shub Gaur
• How the Technical Sciences and the Social Sciences Should Go Hand-in-Hand
  by Charles Liu
• Redefining Societal Progress for Engineers
  by Natasha Singh

Issue 2 – Spring 2023

• The Ethical Case for Fossil Fuels
  by Benjamin Martin
• Why the Keystone XL Pipeline was Unethical
  by January Billington
• Ethical Analysis of The Three Gorges Project
  by Tianhua Lyu
• Social Media Dysmorphia and the Dangers of Hyper-Realistic Photo Retouching Software
  by Abhaya Krishnan-Jha
• Blind Fire: How Universities Push Ethically Unequipped Students Towards Defense Work
  by Max Marshall

Issue 1 – Spring 2022

• The Ethics of Stockpiling Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
  by Matthew Wilson
• Artificial and Unreal: The Ethics of Beautification Technology for Images and Social Media
  by Daniel Chaderjian
• A Credit Card a Week: The Environmental Ethics of Plastics
  by Kaylee Tseng
• The Costs of Megaprojects: An Analysis of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge
  by Helen Situ

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Volume 5

Issue 3 – Winter 2022

• Now That We Have Your Attention
  by Noah Samuels
• Pitfalls of Predictive Policing: An Ethical Analysis
  by Jonathan Li
• Cyberwarfare Conundrum: An Ethical Analysis
  by Bram Lim
• The Ethical Implications of Climate Change and Future Inequality We Can’t Ignore
  by Amber Chow
• Nature is Not a Means to an End: Applying Environmental Ethics to Desalination
  by Audrey Kono

Issue 2 – Fall 2021

• Why We Should Embrace Artificial Wombs
  by Timothy Wang
• Biohacking: The Ethical Implications of Democratizing Biotechnology
  by Lindsey Marks
• The Ethical Challenges of Neural Technology
  by Sabrina Sy
• Animal Testing as a Means of Survival
  by Isabelle Lau
• Curing the Human Condition: The Ethics of Editing Our Own DNA
  by Connor Powers

Issue 1 – Spring 2021

• Pay to Play: The Ethics of Video Game Economics
  by Tyler Amano-Smerling
• The Ethics of Digital Voice Assistants
  by Beatriz Suarez
• Autonomous Weapon Systems: Our New Soldiers, or a Disaster Waiting to Happen?
  by Sameeksha Agrawal
• Ethics of Geoengineering
  by Sarah Cigas
• Environmental Racism and the Role of Engineers in Providing Justice
  by June Moon

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Volume 4

Issue 2 – Fall 2020

• Sounds So Good It Hurts
  by Ryan Dale
• Autonomous Accidents: The Ethics of Self-Driving Car Crashes
  by Teagan Ampe
• Profitable Risk: The Dangers of Consumer Spaceflight and Space Tourism
  by Brandon Dillon
• The Ethics of Self-Driving Cars
  by Isabel Yarwood Perez

Issue 1- Spring 2020

• Food Engineering and Industry Influence on Nutrition
  by Annie Lee
• Killing on Instinct: A Defense of Autonomous Weapon Systems for Offensive Combat
  by Drew Charters
• Limits to Social Media Engagement: An Ethical Approach
  by Mauricio Guajardo
• Not My Space Administration
  by Ashlynn Smith
• Stem Cells: A Case for the Use of Human Embryos in Scientific Research
  by Jonathan Sussman

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Volume 3

Issue 2- Fall 2019

• The Ethics of Engineering in the Construction Field
  by Alex Lin
• Encouraging Corporate Policy: An Ethical Analysis of Environmental Regulatory Methods
  by Brandon Chew
• The Ethics of Machine Learning and Discrimination
  by Jenna Dethlefsen
• Government Backdoor in Cloud Services: Ethics of Data Security
  by Jinkun Liu

Issue 1- Spring 2019

• The Future of Location-Based Services and the Implications of User Privacy
  by Ryan Espiritu
• On the Use of Encrypted Data by Law Enforcement
  by William Whaley
• Ethics of Planned Obsolescence
  by Sanders Li
• Exorcising Research Ghosts: The Ethical Issues Associated with Medical Ghostwriting
  by VCE
• Big Benefits of Big Data: Data Privacy Takes a Backseat
  by VCE

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Volume 2

Issue 2- Fall 2018

• Reviving the Supersonic Commercial Transport: Ethical Considerations
  by Addison Salzman
• The Ethics of Composite Design in Mechanical Engineering
  by Jonathan Coon
• Hey Siri, Am I Being Watched? The Future of Privacy with the Internet of Things
  by Nikkan Ghosh
• Ethics of Predictive Policing
  by Jeremy Panelli
• The Ethical Design of Getting Lost in a Game
  by Kiera Breen Salvo

Issue 1- Spring 2018

• Genetic Engineering in Farmed Animals: Solving or Prolonging Cruelty in Animal Agriculture?
  by Megan Wagoner
• Fighting the Feverish Flyers
  by Douglas Yuk
• The Debate Over Dams
  by Margaret Gwynne
• A Three Institution Approach to Address the Drug Dose Gap
  by Mary Beth Amrine
• Ethics of Transference of Human Intelligence to Non-Biological Substrates
  by David Bell
• An Investigation into the Ethical Implications of Deep Sea Mining
  by Aaron VanLandingham

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Volume 1

Issue 1- Fall 2017

• The Ethics of Artificial Organs
  by Eric Siryj
• Utilitarian Rights-based Arguments for Planetary Protection
  by John Rising
• Drones and Surveillance: An Ethical Approach
  by Keith Holmlund
• Ethics of Decisions Behind the Los Angeles Aqueduct
  by Mason West
• The Frozen-Undead: Ethical Implications of Suspended Animation and Cryonics
  by Anu Rajendran