Thanks for the comments. It’s true that one of the engineering ethics is to meet the client’s interest. In the civil engineering field, the clients are, in most cases, the governments or ultimately the governments whose interest is based on the social wellbeing. Fortunately, the governments and several funding agencies start to notice the social equity part of transportation. In reality, there are many cases that the transportation engineers need to work with urban planners. In that case, the concern of politics is necessary. Also, with the emerging technologies in computer science and artificial intelligence, be able to analysis the complexed systems and consider the human wellbeings will be essential to an engineer that can hardly be replaced by a smart machine. To prepare the students for their future profession, I think it’s good for them to be aware of the complexed reality instead of attacking the problems based on simple equations.
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