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Critique of Article: Health and Safety in the Engineering Classroom

The type of research is descriptive, to elicit statistics on how prevalent safety and health instructi***** is in the normal college engineering curriculum.

*****. Yes, the problem is clearly stated. "The Professional Engineer's Code of Ethics includes the responsibility 'to hold paramount ***** public safety, health ***** welfare,' and yet several recent reports suggest that few undergraduate engineering programs include any structured course material relevant to identifying environmental threats ***** health and controlling occupational ***** ***** health and safety hazards." (Introduction, p. 1, **********. 2, lines 1-4)

3. Yes, the ***** questions are defined, albeit indirectly through the use of tables ***** "subsets" of ***** questions asked. One table l*****ts the reasons why pr*****essors do ***** instruction on health and safety in their classes, while the o*****r addresses the ***** they would not include such instructi*****. While the ***** themselves are not spelled out, the information *****ed is clearly ranked on these tables (Tables 1 ***** 2, pages 2-3, pars. 1-4).

4. No, the problem ***** not deduced from theory but from resu***** of other studies.(Introduction, p. 1, par. 2, line 3, and p. 6 list).

5. N/A. This is not an experimental or relational design, so no independent variables were *****.

6. One dependent variable, as a source ***** possible error, w*****s that one-third of the respondents previously had attended a N*****tional Institute for Occupational Safety ********** *****-sponsored workshop for engineering faculty (D*****cussion, p. 4, par. *****, ***** *****-*****).These faculty, because of their attendance, may have had a stronger focus on safety issues than ***** all ***** either attended these workshops or been drawn from non-attendees.

*****. Yes, the surveys sent to the respondents covered both negative and positive situations, and gave respondents a range of response from "mildly" to "strongly" *****, to neutral or *****.

8. Yes, ***** population studied was clearly specified. "A questionnaire probing faculty interest in and *****onal commitment ***** occupational and public health and safety was mailed to 32***** undergraduate engineering profess*****s in 112 U.S. colleges of engineering." (Methods, p. 1-2, par. 4) 175 surveys were returned, of which 18 ***** excluded ***** the professors had ei*****r retired or left the university setting. Of the 157 that remained, 97% of faculty responding were from ***** programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering ***** Technology, representing 65 ***** ***** engineering (Methods, p. 2, *****. 1, lines 13-16).

*****. Yes, the sampling methods were clearly *****lined. The samples were divided into three groups; one group ***** ***** National Institute for ***** Safety and Health workshops; one group ***** chosen from ***** same universities and fields as those previous, only from non-attendees; and the third group was random (Methods, page 2, par. 1, ***** 1-5).

10. This was not experimental research, so except for subgroups within the large sample (Methods, p. 2, *****. 1, lines 14-16), there ***** no control or compari*****n groups.

11. N/A. This was not ***** research, so there were no treatments.

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