Engineer A is a professional engineer for Company X with exp

Engineer A is a professional engineer for Company X with expertise in electrical engineering. Engineer A also owns a side business, Company Y, which develops enterprise software. Company X could benefit from the software developed by Engineer A and Company Y. There are competing enterprise software products in the marketplace, but Engineer B, the president of Company X believes Company Y’s enterprise software product is the closest to what Company X needs, in part because it appears that Engineer A developed the software based largely on his background as an employee of Company X. The price for the enterprise software is substantial.

There is nothing in Company X’s policies or procedures that would prevent Engineer A from engaging in this outside activity or prevent Company X from purchasing the enterprise software from Engineer A and Company Y. Company X has no specific rules about contracting with current employees and their independent businesses.

Questions:

1. What are Engineer A’s ethical obligations under the circumstances?

2. What are Engineer B’s ethical obligations under the circumstances?

Solution

1-engineers A ethical obligations under the circumstance is to make software for his own company because as he make software for Y company which is very closed to x needed so as he make same software then work for his own company

2-engineers B ethical obligations is to use software make by A and the same software which A make for company Y then what the need to purchase software from Y because enginner A is already work for COMPANY X