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WorksheetsUnit 3
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 21mins
Notifying one's employer or client and appropriate authority in the case of an engineers' judgement being overruled resulting in danger to the life, health, welfare, or property of the public is known as:
Whistleblowing
Clean hands rule
Full Disclosure
Risk benefit analysis
General ethics is primarily concerned with:
Standards, rules, or guidelines for socially approved conduct
Acting in the best interest of society
Being honest and trustworthy
All of these
While performing services, the engineer's foremost responsibility is to:
Safeguard the profession
The public welfare
Advance one's own career
None of these
If an engineer feels the need to criticize another engineer, (s)he should:
Have the conversation "off the record"
Attempt to harm the reputation of him or her
Do so cautiously and objectively with respect
All of these
Contracts are valid in writing and also ___________.
Verbally
Understood
Assumed
When it comes to personal conflicts with ethical standards:
Do what is best for oneself
Ethical standards must be suppressed in favor of personal
Must suppress personal standards to resolve in favor of ethical
None of these are correct
The ability to resist effects of tension, compression, and torsion forces is called:
Strength
Hardness
Ductility
Elasticity
How may a breach of contract occur after a contract is completed?
Item is specified part supplied after a deadline
Item supplied does not meet the specifications
Both answers are correct
Neither answers are correct
Which of the following does not represent a problem with an incorrect BOM?
Inaccurate inventory levels maintained
Potential product liability claims
Insufficient time to complete the project plan
Incorrect costing of the project
The ability to return to the original shape after deformation is called:
Strength
Elasticity
Hardness
Thermal Conductivity
Which of the following is a potential use for a BOM at a company?
to determine the items to draw out of stock
to determine the quantities of each part to order
All of these are correct
to do costing on the assemblies and on the project
The ability to resist indentation and wear is called:
Ductility
Strength
Elasticity
Hardness
When should you look for discounted pricing?
Always
When on is building a product
When one is building small quantities of a product
When one is building large quantities of a product
New materials are designed based on:
Need
Competition
Uses
Recyclability
"Dividing the process into steps allows you to break a large, complex problem into simpler problems where your various skills can be used" is a good description of:
Creative Problem Solving
Analytic Problem Solving
Non of these are correct
All of these are correct
A material having the ability to transport heat would be described as having good:
Electrical Conductivity
Brittleness
Thermal Conductivity
Hardness
The ability to be shaped without fracturing is called:
Elasticity
Ductility
Hardness
Brittleness
Engineers avoiding business ventures or permission for the use of their or their firm's names which engages in dishonest, fraudulent or illegal business practice is know as:
Clean hands rule
Conflicts of interest
Full disclosure
Whistleblowing
True or False: In a contract, both parties must be receiving something of value.
True
False
Generating as many potential solutions as possible without judging any of them is a goal for:
Implementing the solution
Identifying the Problem
All Brainstorming
Reflecting
The convergent part of the process at each Creative Problem Solving stage involves:
Using analytical and evaluative tools to narrow results
Finding the best possibility and continuing
Focusing on the quality of solutions
All of these are correct
When an epoxy is hardening, it is:
"going off"
"going to town"
"going shopping"
"going beyond the call"
What is the term used to describe the amount of time an epoxy can spend in the container?
Resin use
Matrix time
Going off
Pot life
Professional ___________ states that engineers shall not take assignments for which they are not certified.
Judgement
Competence
Experience
Engineering
True or False: Ethics includes your actions outside the workplace as well.
True
False
Administration at an engineering firm is knowledgeable of some members that conducting themselves in unethical manners and decides to terminate their employment. This is an example of:
Clean Hands Rule
Clean your own House
Confidentiality
Whistleblowing
A combination of two or more materials bonded together to achieve better characteristics than the materials individually is described as:
Metal
Ceramic
Polymer
Composite
An engineer tells a potential employer that he currently works for a certain company during his interview. The engineer is following what code?
Confidentiality
Clean Hands
Welfare
Full Disclosure
True or False: Composites are well know for being in sports equipment and aerospace vehicles like space shuttles and the International Space Station.
True
False
True or False: Engineers contributing to a company are forbidden in any manner.
True
False
Which of the following is not a risk within a risk-benefit analysis.
Privacy
Psychological
Strategy
Economic
Select the best combination for a decision:
Low Effort
High Effort
Low Impact
High Impact
Client A asks an engineer about Client B's business plan to assist with their business model. The engineer declines due to the ethics code focusing on:
Whistleblowing
Full Disclosure
Confidentiality
Clean Hands Rule
An engineer is weighing out the initial price of a project and how much profit he can gain. He is conducting a:
Risk-Benefit Analysis
Tax Form Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Orchestra
A brainstorming tool used to come up with ideas is called:
Shrimp Scampi
SCAMPER
CAMPER
I ran out of ideas, but not this one
Select the two components of a composite
Matrix
Polymer
Water
Reinforcement
What is the process of making a composite called:
Epoxy
Lay up
Reinforcing
Going Off
The engineering design process always starts with what?
Brainstorming
Identifying the Problem
Reflection
Teambuilding
The divergent part of brainstorming is
working for quantity
working for quality
a terrible movie that tried to be like hunger games and failed
The first and number one rule in brainstorming is:
Freewheeling is allowed
No criticism
Braindrain
