Quiz 1 (Chapter 1: Ethics and Professionalism)

Engineering Ethics can be defined as what specific individuals or groups of professional believe and how they act, and responsibilities and rights that ought to be endorsed in engineering

• True

• False

Professions are those forms of work involving advanced experience, autonomy, high salary, and concerted service to the public good as usually formulated in in a code of ethics.

• True

• False

Ethical relativism is the view that actions are morally right within a particular society if such actions are approved by professionals of that society.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Some canons in the NSPE code of ethics is used to control moral behavior.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Code of ethics is important in protecting the public even though sometimes code can be vaque and would conflict with another codes in engineering

• TRUE

• FALSE

The practical skills that produce Autonomous Individual is:

• Moral awareness

• Respect of person

• Tolerance of diversity

• Integrity

• All of the Above

In the case of the Citicorp Tower, what was/were the main issues involved?

• Diagonal wind load was not included in the design and would cause building collapse

• Vertical wind load was miss calculated in the final design

• • Change of design for the metal joints from welding joints to belted joints

Debates about sport utility vehicle, issues arose, concerning the Ford Explorer and Bridgestone/Firestone who provided tires for Explorer that separated from others and has led to blowout. 300 people had died and thousands injured. The most harmful vehicle was on the road, this stands for:

• • - Macro issues

• - Micro and macro issues

• - Moral awareness

• - Micro issues

Which of the following cannot be included in the concept “meaning of engineering responsibilities”?

• - Obligations to identifying potential risks and benefits of a project

• - Conscientious of a wide ranges of moral values

• • - Accountability for actions taken by the employer

• - Job and legal responsibilities

• - Accountability for professional and moral responsibilities

Macro issues relate to decisions made by individuals and companies while micro issues concern more global issues.

• True

• False