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Record W2406643743 · doi:10.1109/mcs.2016.2536098

Iron Ring [From the Editor]

2016· article· en· W2406643743 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Control Systems · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSmart Grid Security and Resilience
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCeremonyAutonomyObligationWork (physics)Public relationsEngineeringEngineering ethicsComputer sciencePolitical scienceLawHistoryMechanical engineering

Abstract

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The author uses his memory of the University of Toronto held 'iron ring' ceremony held for his graduating class as a basis to reflect on the responsibilities associated with this profession. Called the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, the ceremony, which dates back to 1922, was originally authored by Rudyard Kipling. The ceremony "was instituted with the simple end of directing newly qualified Canadian engineers toward a consciousness of their profession and its social significance, and indicating to more experienced engineers their responsibilities in welcoming and supporting the newer engineers when they are ready to enter the profession." The passing of the 30th anniversary of the US space shuttle Challenger accident might act as a similar reminder for all engineers to again reflect on the responsibilities associated with this profession. This reflection might be especially important for members of the IEEE Control Systems Society, given the importance of feedback control and autonomy in ensuring the performance and safety of the critical infrastructure and systems that are used routinely. For others in the field, this obligation might just simply be a reminder to do our job well and correctly, check your work and the work of others, speak up if there is a problem, and consider that just because we can do something, it doesn't mean we should. These issues are becoming increasingly important given the complexity of systems that are being created, the mixtures of hardware and embedded software with numerous possible hidden modes/behaviors, and the competitive environment in which many engineers work. Something to consider is that when an application crashes on your phone, you might have to reboot, but there is usually not much harm done. But if a safety-critical system is rolled out too early to meet deadlines without sufficient testing, then the results of a failure could be much more catastrophic. Thus, it is the duty and responsibility of all practicing engineers to recognize the importance of these consequences and to uphold these standards.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.486
Threshold uncertainty score0.366

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.177
Teacher spread0.172 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it