Engineering Ethics

Ethics refers to the study of the ______________ that we all have to make in our lives.

• financial choices
• moral choices
• professional choices
• personal choices

What does NSPE stand for?

• National Society of Pipeline Engineers
• National Society of Petroleum Engineers
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Northern States Power Enterprise

A conflict of interest is

• a general disagreement between two or more individuals.
• when an employee spends company time working on a personal project
• a conflict between an employee and his/her manager.
• a conflict between an individual’s personal interests and his/her professional obligations.

Engineering is an important and learned profession. As members of this profession, engineers are expected to exhibit the highest standards of __________________.

• competence and expertise
• honesty and integrity
• compassion and consideration
• confidentiality and sensitivity

The services provided by engineers must be dedicated to the protection of the _____________________.

• public health, safety and welfare
• public satisfaction, convenience and prosperity
• public understanding, appreciation and reciprocity
• public attention, engagement and participation

Engineers must perform under a standard of professional behavior that requires adherence to the highest principles of ethical ____________.

• thought
• judgment
• failure
• conduct

Engineers shall perform services only in the areas of their ___________.

• control
• calculation
• competence
• creation

The engineer’s creed was developed to state the engineering philosophy of service in a _________ way.

• humorous
• complex
• brief
• philosophical

Which of these statements is not included in The NSPE Engineer’s Creed:

• To give the utmost of performance
• To participate in none but honest enterprise
• To protect the security of client information
• To place service before profit

Professional responsibility is the responsibility associated with the mastery of special kind of knowledge that a person possesses and the use of knowledge for well-being and benefit of _________________ .

• the engineering profession
• society
• clients
• employers