Engineering Ethics Concepts and Cases

Questions: 1. What are the underlying ethical principles? What is right and what is wrong? 2. With reference to Professor Simmons lecture, describe what you believe the correct procedure for handling this situation is.3. There are always impacts of such actions and barriers to resolving ethical dilemmas. Discuss this in terms of your knowledge of self. Answers: 1. The team members act was very unethical. Even if it was not wrong according to the law and would have been beneficial for my team, the act was very unethical. Even if the person had the access to the work of the other team he should not have copied the work of the other team. The other team would have a put in a lot of effort to the work, so they are the ones who are entitled to obtain the results and not my team. In addition to this the person supporting the act was also wrong in his approach. It was also very unethical on the part of person who was supporting it. 2. In reference to Professor Simmonss lecture the correct procedures could be: I can inform my superiors about the fact that the process was unethical and stop the members from copying the work. I would ask the members to ignore whatever access they had to the work done by the other team and focus on their own work instead. In addition to this I can also report the incident to the higher authorities about the situation and prohibit my team from going through the unethical procedure. 3. The resolutions that, I opted for could very easily go against me. As, consequence of my actions I could either be banned from the team or this could make the other members of the angry against me. In addition to this my team would not be getting the benefit that they were hoping to get by copying the work. This might hamper the rate of progress of the task. In addition to this, I should also have proper evidences in order to report the incidents to the higher authorities. Hence, I would have to aware of the situation and the consequences before taking any actions to resolve the issues. References Harris Jr, C.E., Pritchard, M.S., Rabins, M.J., James, R. and Englehardt, E., 2013.Engineering ethics: Concepts and cases. Cengage Learning. Hess, J.L., Beever, J., Iliadis, A., Kisselburgh, L.G., Zoltowski, C.B., Krane, M.J. and Brightman, A.O., 2014, October. An ethics transfer case assessment tool for measuring ethical reasoning abilities of engineering students using reflexive principlism approach. InFrontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE(pp. 1-5). IEEE.