Teaching Social Responsibility: Conflict Minerals Module for a Circuits Class

Lord, Susan M.; Przestrzelski, Breanne; Reddy, Elizabeth

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“…Lastly, in the global smartphone industry, the numerous suits between Apple and Samsung brought attention to the importance of respecting patent rights. Since the conflict was based on copying patents, the lawsuits were a learning lesson for other technology companies (Lord et al, 2018). The industry can be seen taking advantage of the mistakes made in this globally recognized conflict.…”

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The conflict between Apple and Samsung over patents and copyrights

Albasoos¹,

Musallami

2020

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This article seeks to explore the conflict between Samsung and Apple. The conflict has been one of the most outstanding patent wars in the history of the smartphone industry. Apple and Samsung are among the most popular manufacturers of commonly used smartphones and tablets. The conflict began when Apple decided to file a federal lawsuit in the US district court, accusing Samsung of copying some of its iPhone features in the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone. The court ascertained that the gadget had similar characteristics to Apple, thus ordering Samsung to pay Apple for the damages. In response, Samsung reacted by filing countersuits. The two firms, almost fifty cases in different nations and regions. The issues lasted for seven years, starting from 2011 and ending in 2016, in which both companies benefited and lost at the same time. The conflict emanated because of each firm pursuing its competitive advantage in the market. Apart from following market shares, third parties, like consumers, instigated the conflict, with international politics and the media playing a role.

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The conflict between Apple and Samsung over patents and copyrights

Albasoos¹,

Musallami

2020

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“…The first module, entitled "Conflict Minerals", makes students aware that materials commonly used in electrical devices (such as Tantalum in capacitors) often come from countries where wars are fought over the resources [1,2,3]. Students are then encouraged to consider how they could minimize the use of conflict minerals as engineers and conduct research to learn about measures actually taken by companies to reduce the use of these materials.…”

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Board 118: Developing Changemaking Engineers – Year Four

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Lord²,

Camacho³

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Diego. His research interests lay in engineering student persistence, and applied operations research. He is active in outreach activities targeting underrepresented populations and has received NSF funding to support U.S. military veterans, community college transfer students, and innovative engineering education. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and M.S. in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis in Operations Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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“…The instructor was pleased that both students who were in a previous class that had discussed conflict minerals and supply chains [19] mentioned sourcing and conflict minerals. Interestingly, both students put this as their fourth factor.…”

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“…This integration is one that has been underway at the University of San Diego Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering for several years. Supported by an NSF-funded Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) grant, the larger goal of this work is to empower student engineering changemakers and develop sociotechnical content that faculty can incorporate into their classrooms [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Trash Teachings: How a Materials Science Module Series about Waste can Empower Engineering Students to be More Sociotechnically Responsible

Przestrzelski

Lord

Camacho

2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she innovatively integrates social justice, humanitarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering curriculum. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty/administrators at the Stanford d.School as a University Innovation Fellow, coaches a global community of learners through IDEO U, and fails miserably at cooking.

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Teaching Social Responsibility: Conflict Minerals Module for a Circuits Class

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

The conflict between Apple and Samsung over patents and copyrights

The conflict between Apple and Samsung over patents and copyrights

Board 118: Developing Changemaking Engineers – Year Four

Trash Teachings: How a Materials Science Module Series about Waste can Empower Engineering Students to be More Sociotechnically Responsible

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