1. Revisit the Project Proposal that you created and your design specifications.

Consider the technical expertise and knowledge that is required to properly design
your product. Has your team acquired the math, science, and engineering
knowledge necessary to properly design your product? Have you contacted experts
in order to gain the necessary knowledge or obtain assistance with the parts of the
design that your team is not well equipped to perform? It is impossible to include an
exhaustive list of math, science, and engineering principles that you should
incorporate into the design of your product because each product design will require
consideration of different concepts. The following list is intended only to get you
thinking about concepts that you may need to investigate further.
We will have to think mainly about materials, since a glove is made from fabrics.
That is why we are trying to get in contact with materials and textiles engineers who
really know about the specifics of certain types of fabrics. Chemical engineering is
also very important because we need to know the molecular structures of fabrics
and polymers to know more about their properties such as waterproofness etc.

2. Have you researched laws, codes, and regulations that could potentially impact your
design? Do you feel that your team has met its ethical responsibility for technical
expertise related to the design of your product? If not, perform additional research at
this time. Revise your product design as necessary.
Our product is not impacted by any laws or regulations as far as I am aware. We are
meeting the ethical responsibility because our product is not intending or directly
causing harm to the consumers.
3. Create a graphic to document your products anticipated lifecycle. Research the
efforts necessary to take your product from raw materials to the end of its lifecycle
(and potentially be reused or recycled into new products). Detail each phase of the
cycle with information specific to your product. For example, in the Raw Material
Extraction phase, indicate the raw materials that must be obtained in order to create
your product. In the Material Processing phase, detail the processes necessary to
convert the raw materials to usable substances in your product. In the Assembly and
Packaging phase, detail the anticipated method of assembly (one-off, hand
assembled, human assembly line in a large manufacturing facility, fully automated
robotic assembly, etc.) and the anticipated type of packaging that will be used.

4. Consider the consequences of the development of your product at each phase in its
lifecycle to people (designers, users, nonusers, employees of the manufacturers,
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distributors, sellers, etc.), the environment (including the use of nonrenewable

natural resources; the potential release of toxins, waste, or pollution; the creation of
visually unappealing facilities or noise pollution; the effect on animal and plant
species, etc.), and society.
Some of the consequences of the development of our product are the emission of
greenhouse gases by the delivery trucks. Another consequence is that the rubber
grip part of our glove is made from rubber, which is harvested from rubber trees,
which can lead to deforestation.
5. Compose an ethical justification for further development of your product by
describing why and how the benefits of your product outweigh the negative impacts.
The benefits outweigh the negative impacts of our product because there is not much
harm that can be caused by a glove. This product is designed to help people with a
health condition cope with the sometimes tedious task of writing for people who
suffer from hyperhydrosis.

Conclusion
1 What are some potential ways in which your product could fail? What design
features have you included to minimize the chance of failure?
Some ways in which our product could fail is by not achieving its intended purpose. Our
product is supposed to prevent hand sweat from getting on the paper when writing,
and stop it from smearing and smudging the writing. If the product fails, then the
writing will continue to smear, and the sweat from the hand will soak through the
fabric and reach the paper. Another way it can fail is by causing the hand to sweat
even more, but this is unlikely as the glove we are creating is very open and
breathable, only covering key contact areas of the hand.
2 Is development of a product that knowingly causes harm to people ever ethically
justifiable? Why or why not? Give examples to support your position.
No, it is never justifiable to create a product that knowingly causes harm. If we knew our
glove was going to hurt people or cause injury we would re-design it or stop production of
the glove immediately. It is wrong to be profiting or making money off of fraudulent products
that cause harm to the consumer. If you take a look at the tobacco industry, the CEOs
know that their product is causing harm to the consumers but they do not care at all. This is
immoral as they are abusing the addictive properties of nicotine for lucrative gains of
money. Another example is manufacturing guns, however guns are more debatable than
cigarettes or tobacco because guns can also be used for good (such as protecting innocent
civilians or hunting for food), whereas tobacco does nothing but harm. Because of tobacco
and guns hundreds of thousands of people die every year while the businesses are just
taking their money. I am thankful that we are not creating a product that intends to harm the
consumers.

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