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CNST 1301 – Construction Materials & Methods

Ethics Assignment

Ethics is a cornerstone of professional construction practice. This assignment is to help students to gain a better understanding of ethics standards through a real-life case study. This assignment is also an assessment of your written communication skills. Please take the time to write well to ensure a high grade.

Instruction

Read the attached Ethic Case Study and reference any code of ethics adopted by any professional or trades organization to answer the following questions:

Q1. What is the main ethical issue in the case study? Describe any circumstances to help the reader to fully appreciate the issue.

Q2. What caused the issue/problem in the first place?

Q3. In your point of view, which of the following courses of action that could have been taken by Engineer A are considered ethical?

Explain your answers.

Engineer A could immediately contact managers of the other company and report the suspicious practices at Dicers company.
Engineer A could inform higher level management of Dicers company of the practices enforced by the supervisor, but Engineer A shouldn’t release this issue to any outside party prior to any further investigation.
Engineer A, could have informed news agencies about this issue and retaliate the action of Dicers company.

Q4. Discuss your rationale for declining the other options.

Evaluation

Criteria	points
I. Technical Merit (7 points)
Q1 & Q2 (300 words minimum)	/3
Q3 & Q4 (500 words minimum)	/4
II. Writing skill (3 points)
Use of appropriate grammar, spelling, and MLA format (see sample in Blackboard)	/1.5
Logic structure & development of ideas	/1.5
TOTAL	/10pt

Deadline: Please submit your solution in Blackboard (click “Ethics Assignment” link on the left navigation menu) prior to the due date.

Improper Conduct by Management

SITUATION:

Engineer A, an electrical engineer, worked for Dicers, a company that purchased wafers for microprocessor chips from another company and then reprocessed, packaged, and resold them. Engineer A was assigned the task of testing the wafers. After a while, Engineer A was instructed by his supervisor to alter the testing process, to which both parties had contractually agreed. The testing process was altered, over Engineer A’s objections, in such a manner that the quality of the purchased wafers was made to seem lower, when in reality there is no reduction in the quality. This lowered the price paid by Dicers to the other company. Engineer A objected to this practice and refused to go along, and as a consequence, was discharged.