CRESTVIEW — With Okaloosa County educators and engineers' help, students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa are preparing for careers that marry science with business practices.
Laurel Hill resident Dennis Mitchell, a retired Troy University environmental studies faculty member, and local engineer Paul Hsu spoke at the Jan. 26 “Good Science, Good Business, Good Ethics” seminar. Also on the dais was William Soon, an astrophysicist from Harvard-Smithsonian Stellar Studies.
Mitchell attended the seminar as the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice's Ethics Committee chairman.
Presenters focused on the necessity for caution when creating environmental policy without considering all the research data, Mitchell said.
Touching on the ethics components of Hsu and Soon’s presentations, Mitchell offered a practical overview of “just how ethics relates to law and morals as well as the long term value to a professional’s career.”
Audience members included engineering, science and business students as well as regional professionals and “some senior management people” from the Alabama Department of Environment Management, Mitchell said.
The seminar was organized by Fort Walton Beach High School graduate Harrison Freeman and presented by the Alabama Student Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association and the Capstone Initiative.
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