Assignment

Question 1

Discuss each question in a paragraph of at least five sentences. Include the question and number your answers accordingly

1. Give an example from the book where insufficient testing was a factor in a program error or system failure.

2. What was one cause in the delay in the completing of the Denver Airport.

3. Why didn't the healthcare.gov website work at first?

4. What is one characteristic of high reliability organizations?

5. Describe the potential risks of alert fatigue in EHR systems.

6. What were 2 common factors in both the Therac-25 case and the space shuttle disaster.

7. What does design for failure mean?

Question 2

Your Research Project on the surveillance state consists of two parts:

1 a Power point presentation consisting of at least 12 slides not including title and references.

2. 750 word research  paper with at least 3 sources.

You must include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line. 

There should be no lists - bulleted, numbered or otherwise. 

Write in essay format with coherent paragraphs not in outline format.

Do your own work. Zero points will be awarded if you copy other's work and do not cite your source or you use word replacement software. 

The topic must be appropriate for graduate level. Find a topic that we covered in the course and dig deeper or find something that will help you in your work or in a subject area of interest related to the course topic. Use academically appropriate resources which you can find in the Danforth Library Research Databases.

Question 3 

pWeek 13 Discussion

Discuss in 500 words your opinion on what lessons should be learned from the 737 Max 8 crashes. 

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library, not Google.  Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: "words you copied" (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragaphs.

Question 4

Research Project Proposal

The purpose of this assignment is to pick a topic for your research project. 

Your Research Project will be a presentation on some aspect of the surveillance state.  Do a five source annotated bibliography/reference list on the subject. There should be two annotations for each source. In the first write a paragraph of at least five sentences summarizing the thesis of the article. In the second write a paragraph of at least five sentences summarizing your reflections on the thesis of the article. You should do a deep dive into a topic. Do not do a survey. Make use of academic references such as you can find in the Danforth LIbrary research databases 

Use at least five sources.

Question 5

Week 13 

Week Eleven - Submit Final Project Topic

Submit your final project topic here. Include a short paragraph describing your project and how you intend to research it. also Submit a brief abstract describing your final project.

Topic: Encryption

Question 6 

Week 12

About the Final Project

o Each student will prepare a final project on a web application security topic. The primary deliverables for the project will be a paper (500-700 word, double spaced, written in APA format, showing sources and a bibliography) and and also a presentation (12 slides) 

o Topic: Encryption