While attending a professional engineering conference you ar

While attending a professional engineering conference, you are invited to a reception being held by a renewable energy contractor that wants to demonstrate their new solar thermal electric generation technology in the hope that you\'ll include their technology in your building designs for those clients who want green buildings. In addition to the promotional materials, presentation and demonstration of the technology, the reception includes free drinks and dinner for you and other invited guests. Because you often get questions from your clients about new solar energy technologies, you want to attend the dinner... O.but you must decline the invitation because as a professional engineer you may not accept gratuities, gifts or bribes. ...so you accept the invitation. Free dinner and drinks are minor incidentals, given that attending is aligned with your clients\' interests. accept the invitation, but insist on paying for your own dinner and drinks. .refuse the invitation and report the contractor to the State Licensing Board for offering bribes.

Solution

Q1.

Option 1. Option one is not relevant with the situation described in the above paragraph. Even in Conferences the management provide snacks, drinks etc.

Option 2.…So you accept the invitation. Free dinner and drinks are minor incidentals, given that attending is aligned with your clients’ interests. Is correct because as you are professional engineer you should be knowing about the new advances in Engineering, any new product in the market which you can utilize for your work which is helpful to the client.

Option 3 is not correct as you are also invited and all the drinks and dinner are free, why will you insist on paying for your drinks as other guests are also not paying. And in these situations mostly you will find free drinks and dinner for delegates.

Option 4 is also not correct as it is not bribing and it’s written that the renewable energy contractor wants to demonstrate their new solar thermal electric generation technology in hope that we will include in our designs. It’s not mandatory for us to use their designs. And how else will they promote their designs if not through conferences.

Q2.

Option 1 is not correct as manipulating the sample readings is against the professional engineering code of conduct.

Option 2 is correct where Emma will report both the old and new values to her supervisor and federal regulatory authorities. They will decide why the several samples exceed the drinking water standards. These values may be because of any leakages or contamination. It’s a Pipe distribution Network so it’s common for the pipe to have leakages from where the contaminants can enter the distribution network.

Option 3 quitting your job will not solve the problem.

Option 4 don’t report your supervisor, maybe he wants to accurately identify the location where you are getting high lead values so that measure can be taken.

Q3.

Option 1 is not correct because all the projects where given to a different firm. Though the workdone by the engineer has now shifted to a new engineering firm it doesn’t mean that the project was done by the new firm.

Similarly Option 2 is not correct as its not ethical to take credit for a project performed by another firm or group of engineers as long as the engineers are now members of the firm. These projects will be beneficial for the engineer and engineer is an essential for the firm.

Option 3 is correct as it is Unethical

Option is not correct as it is misleading as the new firm is not responsible for the projects already done by their firm’s members.

Q4.

As the construction of pool is already finished and spa is being made, it’s better to stop the contractor since the calculations could be off and immediately inform the owner, contractor and design engineer of the pool discrepancy, and recommend the pool wall near the spa be replaced with high strength concrete to account to the pool wall size so the correct option is 3. Both a and b .