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  • Naval Architecture
  • Engineering Ethics

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  • The 1983 America's Cup victory by Australia II highlighted a revolutionary wing keel design.
  • Official records credit Ben Lexcen with the design, including a patent application.
  • However, Peter van Oossanen and Dr. Joop Slooff were reportedly involved in the wing keel's development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present Peter van Oossanen's firsthand account of the wing keel's design process.
  • To ethically analyze the attribution of the wing keel's design using professional codes of ethics.
  • To resolve ethical conflicts in design attribution using a novel applied ethics methodology.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of personal archives including telexes, letters, and drawings from Peter van Oossanen.
  • Application of the American National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and Dutch Royal Netherlands Institute of Engineers (KIVI) codes of ethics.
  • Utilizing a similarity-based reasoning method from applied ethics to address complex attribution cases.

Main Results:

  • Van Oossanen's archive provides detailed documentation of the wing keel's design journey.
  • The NSPE and KIVI codes yield conflicting conclusions regarding the ethical attribution of the design.
  • The applied ethics method successfully navigates the impasse, offering a framework for resolving similar attribution disputes.

Conclusions:

  • Peter van Oossanen's role in designing the Australia II's wing keel is substantiated by archival evidence.
  • Existing ethical codes are insufficient for resolving complex, multi-party design attribution scenarios.
  • A refined ethical framework, employing moral paradigm cases, can provide clearer guidance in engineering ethics cases.