Question: Directions: Using your notes from the video Mega Disasters - Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse to discuss this case with your group and answer the questions

Directions: Using your notes from the video "Mega Disasters - Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse" to discuss this case with your group and answer the questions below:
Identify five (5) key actors involved in creating the skywalk and describe their roles and responsibilities in this project.
What are four (4) relevant external goods that the skywalk was intended to generate? Among these include at least two components of capabilities discussed in EEOC Ch.2.
Who were the key actors in reviewing the collapse of the skywalk? Describe their respective roles and responsibilities in discovering what led to the skywalk's failure.
Analyze the Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse in terms of the three types of explanations for engineering disasters:
a. Engineering failures
b. Management failures
c. Ethical failures
i. Virtue Ethics (apply one general virtue and all four [4] Engineering virtues discussed in EEOC Ch.2)
ii. Kantian Ethics (use either the 1st or 2nd formulation of the Categorical Imperative)
iii. Utilitarianism (use Bentham's version of the theory)
What do you think are the key reasons behind the ethical misconduct(s) that you identified in Question 4?
Who would you say bears the most ethical responsibility in this case? Explain your answer.
In your (collective) opinion, what was the most striking/disturbing/interesting aspect of this case/video?
What overall lessons can you draw from this case that would apply to ethical engineering practice more generally?
 Directions: Using your notes from the video "Mega Disasters - Hyatt

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