Keynote: The Oath of the Innovator: Mechanical Engineer, Musician, and Author
summary
Argues that technical people carry a social obligation to build safe, practical systems and gives concrete stakes: a nine-story patient tower with psychiatric lockdown and NICU needs seismic upgrades and changed air flows to stop infection spread; planning must ensure power, water and communications survive outages. Describes improvised disaster fixes like make a generator out of a stationary bike and a car battery and invokes noblesse oblige as the ethic driving design decisions.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 0:20Being a different kind of innovator
- 5:34Privilege and obligation of intelligence
- 8:03Responsibility in engineering projects
- 12:17The innovator’s oath
- 13:21Building for the future
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