Exam 2: Professional Codes of Ethics

A) hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public."
B) avoid deceptive acts."
C) conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession."
D) All of the above

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A) The burden of proof shifted from the engineers being able to prove the launch was safe to launch to having to prove it is not safe to stop launch.
B) The O-ring blow-by was an aberration known to have occurred without disaster in the past and so did not alarm engineers.
C) Lund was told to take off his engineering hat and put on his management hat.
D) The conditions were unusually cold for launch that January.

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A) prohibitive, descriptive, or normative principles.
B) prohibitive, preventive, or aspirational principles.
C) prohibitive, descriptive, or aspirational principles.
D) factual, descriptive, or normative principles

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B

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A) The low oil pressure warning in your car lights up every morning for two weeks; you think it is an electric problem until the engine stops working and needs to be replaced.
B) Small pieces of foam fell of the space shuttles many times; nobody took any notice until the Columbia disaster.
C) Your computer fails to install the latest updates on several occasion; you don't worry about it until it crashes, and your work is lost.
D) All of the above

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A) a technical error is accepted as normal, even though the technological system is not working as it should.
B) an nontechnical error is accepted as normal, even though the technological system is working as it should.
C) the process in which an ethical mistake is accepted as normal, even though the technological system is working as it should.
D) All of the above

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A) violated all six fundamental canons of the NSPE code of ethics.
B) violated the first fundamental canons of the NSPE code of ethics.
C) violated the sixth fundamental canons of the NSPE code of ethics.
D) did not respect the distinction between Proper Engineering Decisions and Proper Management Decisions.

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A) affects the performance of the organization.
B) does not require any technical expertise.
C) does not significantly affect the health, safety and welfare of others or has any potential to violate the standards of an engineering code of ethics in other ways.
D) All of the above

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A) prohibitive
B) preventive
C) aspirational
D) All of the above

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A) honorably, morally, responsibly, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession.
B) honorably, morally, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the prestige, reputation, and usefulness of the profession.
C) honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and prestige of the profession.
D) None of the above

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A) hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.
B) perform services only in areas of their competence.
C) issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner.
D) conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession.

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A) Citibank, his client, specifically ordered him to lie.
B) His honor and reputation and that of the profession rested upon repairing the building without anyone knowing.
C) A faithful agent delegates the responsibility of informing the public to the client.
D) Truthfully disclosing all the relevant information to the public would have caused a panic and actually harmed the public good.

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A) a leaking O-ring in a fuel tank, which could not cope with the unusually low temperature at the day of the take-off.
B) a lack of respect for the NSPE code of ethics, which stipulates that engineers shall hold paramount the health, safety and welfare of the public.
C) foam-shedding, which was caused by the unusually low temperature at the day of the take-off.
D) normalization of deviance.

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, whi...

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A) Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public.
B) Engineers shall issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner.
C) Engineers shall perform services only in areas of their competence.
D) Engineers shall conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession.

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A) Has the potential to violate the standards of an engineering code of ethics.
B) Affects the performance of the organization.
C) Requires technical expertise.
D) May significantly affect the health, safety, and welfare of others.

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