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Ethical Issues

This document describes 19 different ethical dilemmas faced by engineers and researchers across various industries: - A quality assurance engineer must decide whether to ship potentially defective products. - An intern faces unkind comments that may be due to prejudice. - A professor discovers a colleague took credit for their research. - A researcher feels pressure to not report an error in protocol. - A graduate student suspects their adviser earned tenure through false pretenses.

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Ethical Issues

This document describes 19 different ethical dilemmas faced by engineers and researchers across various industries: - A quality assurance engineer must decide whether to ship potentially defective products. - An intern faces unkind comments that may be due to prejudice. - A professor discovers a colleague took credit for their research. - A researcher feels pressure to not report an error in protocol. - A graduate student suspects their adviser earned tenure through false pretenses.

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Ethical Issues

To Ship or Not to Ship

 A quality assurance engineer must decide whether or not to ship products that might be defective.
Time-Sharing Space

 An intern at a power electronics startup faces unkind comments from a fellow engineer. She suspects that her
colleague is prejudice toward female engineers.
Inhibited Reaction

 A chemical engineering professor discovers that a colleague has taken credit for his research.
Apathy over Anonymity

 A bioengineering researcher discovers an error in protocol and feels pressured not to report it to her
supervisor.
Questioning a Mentor

 A graduate student suspects her research adviser has earned tenure under false pretenses.
Copyright Concerns

 A computer startup company risks violating copyright laws if it reuses a code that is the intellectual property
of another company.
Off the Clock

 A recently promoted manager at an industrial engineering company discovers that factory workers are asked
to work more than eight hours a day without getting paid overtime.
Misinterpretation Mishap

 Full transparency might prevent a project leader from closing a deal with a valuable client. Should he still
clarify the situation to his client?
Disclosure Dilemma

 A manager at a consumer electronics company struggles over whether or not he should disclose confidential
information to a valued customer.
Trimming Data

 A medical researcher is asked to trim data before presenting it to the scientific advisory board.
Going Public

 A technical sales engineer feels pressure to falsify a sales report in order to prevent the delay of her
company's IPO.
A Breach in Security

 When a computer filled with personal data gets stolen, a data company must decide how to manage the
breach in security.
Onerous Favorites

 Employees of a computer hardware company are angered by a manager that demonstrates favoritism.
Unintended Effects

 A project engineer believes his company is providing the wrong form of technology to an in-need
community in East Africa.
A Violation of Privacy

 A computer engineer is asked to divulge private medical data for marketing purposes.
Trouble with Training

 In this ethics case, a woman is displeased with her work role at a computer hardware company.
A Sinking Situation

 A systems engineering company employee quits after getting pressured to falsify product testing paperwork.
Insurmountable Differences

 An African-American electronics design lead wonders whether his colleague's contentious behavior is
motivated by racism.
Giving in or Giving up

 An engineering manager gets pressured to bribe a foreign official in order to secure a business venture in
East Africa.
Presidential Pressure

 A quality assurance tester gets pressured to falsify data about a new product from a major cell phone
company.
May the Truth be with You

 A new hire at an electronics startup struggles to decide between telling the truth and maximizing the
company's profit.
Solar Falsifier

 A fellow for a global services program faces an ethical dilemma when a colleague asks him to falsify
receipts.
Bulk Discount Balk

 Two support engineers at a South Bay audio visual electronics startup question the fairness of a supervisor's
decision.

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