Introduction to Professional Engineering in Canada Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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Almost all provincial codes of ethics state that the engineer must consider the duty to public
welfare as paramount. What does paramount mean?
The public safety must be placed ahead of personal gain.
Although provincial codes of ethics that that public welfare is paramount, the codes also
im...
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Introduction to Professional Engineering in
Canada Questions and Correct Answers
the Latest Update
Almost all provincial codes of ethics state that the engineer must consider the duty to public
welfare as paramount. What does paramount mean?
✓ The public safety must be placed ahead of personal gain.
Although provincial codes of ethics that that public welfare is paramount, the codes also
impose a duty to keep the employers business affairs confidential. Therefore, a dilemma may
occur. For example, consider the case where an employer has an unsafe work site, or plans to
use substandard materials in a bridge to support structure, thereby creating a public safety
hazard. If the engineer cannot convince the employer to follow safe construction practices,
then the engineer is encouraged by the code of ethics to :
✓ try to resolve the problem with the employer, and ask the association to mediate
The term conflict of interest means (when used in a code of ethics) that the engineer :
✓ has a personal or financial interest that conflicts with the employers interests
An engineer is assigned, by an employer , to purchase materials for construction project and
to supervise the construction. In collaboration with a partner, the engineer creates a delivery
company that purchases the materials, delivers them to the construction site and charged the
costs to the engineers employer, with and added profit for the engineer and the partner. The
engineers employer is not aware that the engineer is the half-owner of the delivery company.
Has the engineer infringed the code of ethics? If so what should be done?
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✓ A conflict of interest has occurred; the engineer must disclose the conflict to the employer
and ask whether the employer will allow the arrangement to continue.
Which of the following is not grounds for charging and engineer with professional misconduct :
gross negligence, incompetence, conviction of a traffic offence , conviction of a serious criminal
offence
✓ conviction of a traffic offence
Which of the following is grounds for charging an engineer with professional mis-conduct :
failing to correct or report a dangerous work site under the engineers control, sealing a
drawing prepared by a technologist under the engineers direct supervision , accepting secret
commission from a supplier for buying the supplies products, sealing a drawing by an
unlicensed person not under the engineers direct supervision, or making public statements that
are not based on firm knowledge and conviction
✓ failing to correct or report a dangerous work site un the engineers control
Which of the following is grounds for charging and an engineer with professional mis-conduct :
An engineer signs and seals a report as a favour to a friends, even though the report was not
prepared or checked by the engineer, An engineer undertakes work oustide the engineers
area of competence, An engineer fails to inform an emplyer or client of a conflict of interest,
An engineer fails to correct or to report a situation that may endanger the public
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