Thursday, August 22, 2013

Homework 3 - Software Engineering - CSCI 362-001



10.6 - A multimedia museum system offering virtual experiences of ancient Greece is to be developed for a consortium of European museums. The system should provide users with the facility to view 3-D models of ancient Greece through a standard web browser and should also support an immersive virtual reality experience. What political and organizational difficulties might arise when the system is installed in the museums that make up the consortium?

Depending on where the physical museums are located there may be legal issues depending on the content of the system. Ancient Greece had several activities which are not necessarily accepted today - this ranges from pedophilia, young marriage, and brutal murder. If the system includes these then there may be political damage done to the institutions. Organizational difficulties may arise if the system makes staff members irrelevant - the job that they previously done has been replaced.


10.10 - You are an engineer involved in the development of a financial system. DUring installation, you discover that this system will make a significant number of people redundant. The people in the environment deny you access to essential information to complete the system installation. To what extent should you, as a systems engineer, become involved in this situation? Is it your professional responsibility to complete the installation as contracted? Should you simply abandon the work until the procuring organization has sorted out the problem?

As a systems engineer you should attempt to gain the information you require to do the job you were
contracted to do. If it is being kept from you by others, you should avoid direct conflict (getting in
arguments or threatening those barring your way), and have the procuring organization gain and provide the data. At no point should you do any illegal activity to gain access to the data you need.

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