EE 316 Ethics Assignment: Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Engineering, Assignments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Download EE 316 Ethics Assignment: Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Engineering and more Assignments Electrical and Electronics Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! EE 316 Ethics Assignment Fall Semester 2005 Please review the attached codes of ethics. A web address for this information is listed for each code of ethics. Alabama State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors http://www.bels.state.al.us/pdfs/2003%20Law%20&%20Code.pdf NSPE: National Society of Professional Engineers http://www.nspe.org/ethics/codeofethics2003.pdf IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=about/whatis&fi le=code.xml&xsl=generic.xsl As a group, consider the following problem, and write a group report addressing the problem. Your report should do the following three things: • Identify several possible courses of action that the engineer could take. • Evaluate each possible course of action in light of a particular code of ethics. • Explain what you think is the correct course of action, and why. As always, the rules of proper written English should be observed. Your group report will be due at the start of class on Wednesday, 9 November 2005. Here is your problem: You are an engineer in a small, new, high-tech company. Your company is trying to field a new product to compete with the products of other companies that are already established in a highly-competitive market. There is intense pressure to produce a product quickly, so that the new company can generate some revenue and stay in business. The new product could emit radiation, and thus has the potential to cause injury to the users if proper safety measures are not take. Difficulties have arisen during the design stage, and a working product has not yet been produced. During a planning meeting, several of the owners of the company suggest trying certain key features from the design of the competitors product, without fully understanding how it works. If this were to produce the desired performance, then they would want to push the product to market. They feel like the design issues involved are insignificant, but as the engineer you think this part of the design is central to the functioning of the product. What do you do?