EEP Sample 1: Though this issue is not entirely related to engineering specifically, I stiff think h applies. On Wednesday of this week, I logged on the computer in the MML lab and noticed that Dr. Goulet had left his Blackboard signed on. In front of me I had access to everything he controls from Blackboard, from grades to submitted reports, and fm sore many other things. I could have easily altered grades, creating, if nothing else, discrepancy and confusion between Dr. Goulet and his students. 1 decided to simply log Dr. Goulet off rather than change anything (hopefully, my decision was what you expected). For practical reasons it would have been stupid to change anything in his Blackboard. I would have been caught. But the ethical reason was much more compelling. It would have been wrong, regardless of the COE. Still, the COE does state that, "engineers shall act in such a manner as to uphold and chance the honor, integrity, and dignity of the profession." I could have changed things or deleted things, but that would have been very stupid and highly unethical.

EEP Sample 2: An ethical issue that had risen before in the semester almost rose again last wok. I got my BAR back from my instructor and I noticed the low grade I made on it. For the second time this year, I was mad and sad about my grade being so low, so I went to my instructor's office for assistance. While he was explaining my mistakes on my paper, I started getting mad because I could not sec anything wrong with the spots that he was pointing out. While my instructor was looking over my BAR, I was considering the kind of action I should take throughout this conversation. I was either going to argue about his grading w I was going to lists to him and try to understand where I Lad die wrong. I chase my second solution because I did not want to take the same kind of action that I took when the same issue had risen two months ago. I needed to be quiet and listen to my instructor to learn my mistakes so that I will not do repeat the on my next BAR w assignments. The main reason why I chose this solution was because I knew I was wrong in the places that my instructor graded me on, but I did not want to accept it

After a while I realized that I had to accept my mistakes to improve on my future assignments. I decided not to act in an unprofessional manner because as an engineer I have to learn fret my mistakes so that I can improve in my profession. The solution I found is a direct output of the engineering ethics and professionalism fundamental cannon, which states "Engineers shall act in such a manna to uphold and enhance the honor, integrity and dignity of the profession." Aging in a professional manna proves that I want to be a professional engineer, and the only way to be a professional engineer is to learn from my mistakes. If this kind of an issue rises again, I am going to take the same action that I did this time. 1 will not react in a negative way because every time someone mentions my-mistakes, they actually help me learn the right way to accomplish some things.

EEP Sample 3: I encountered a problem while working on my trams load cell end deflectometer report. On last Friday, I received an email informing us that our final reports for low load cell and deflectometer was due that day. We were unprepared to submit both reports in their entirety. I contacted one of my team members and found out that the other member could not be reached. I considered the options I could pursue. One: I could try again to contact this person and inform them of the situation. Two: Torn both reports in without their portion to prevent a late grade penalty. I remembered a canon from the Code of Engineering Ethics, which says, "Engineers shall act in suds a manner as to uphold and chance the honor, integrity and dignity of the profession." I decided to pursue both options in this case. I knew that I should try and get in touch with the missing team member, but since it was a Friday night I knew it would be extremely difficult. I explained to the person I had been in contact with that if we do nut find them that we should go ahead and submit the reports. I knew that I needed to act with dignity and integrity goring this predicament and to uphold the honor of my future profession. I was unfortunate in locating the absent team member and was forced to submit the reports with the missing portions. Later, I was informed that goring the process of presenting ow reports, via Internet, had been unsuccessful. This proved to lx beneficial, because the missing team member received ow messages and placed her portions in the reports. Although the report was late, I was pleased to see we were able to resubmit the report in its entirety.

EEP Sample 4: During the week of November 4, 2002, I encountered an ethical issue in another engineering design class. In this class, three other people and I are working tin building a data acquisition system for a company. The owner of the company asked ow team if we could order LabVIEW (data acquisition software from National Instruments) for him. Because we are students of a university, we would qualify for a 35% off student discount. The ethical Issue that arises is this. Should we use ow engineering status to coin this man a discount off of a purchase he would not normally get? He was purchasing the software (for his business) and not us, therefore we can be considered as a pawn it. his desire to build a data acquisition system. An alternative solution would be to convince National Instruments to make ii legal for him to get the 35%, discount since he was waking with the university. 1 chose against allowing him a 35% discount off the software. If one refers to the Engineering Code of Ethics, one can see that it goes against Fundamental Principal II of "being honest and impartial, and servicing with fidelity the public, their employers and clients." In addition, agreeing to give him our discount would disagree with Canon number o in the code of ethics which states : "Engineers shall act in such a manner as to uphold and enhance the honor, integrity and dignity of the profession." It seems by lying and saying that the software was for us would be dishonest and ruin the honor, integrity, and dignity of the profession that we arc to uphold

EEP Sample 5: In the last few weeks I have been faced with a situation that I believe is an ethical issue. I have been working in an upper level engineering class with a design: team. I have felt that the instructor was unfairly judging my team and that we were being asked to design something that the customer did not want. I recently aided my seam in writing a paper that described where we were in our design process. The paper requirements were followed very closely. However, when the grades carne back one professor had given my team an A and the other professor had given my team a very low B. Ills reasoning behind his grading was that our team had not given him what he wanted, even though all requirements were met. After talking to the professor in question he/she admitted that they had a problem wish some of the member's on the learn. My ethical issue is should I a) let this grade go and worry about my final grade and completing the class x b) should I speak with my other professor about the situation. I ultimately decided that I would meet with my other professor and get his take on the situation. I actually, have a meeting time with him next week.

The reasoning behind my ultimate decision is that in part III of the Fundamental Principles of the Code of Ethics of Engineers, it states that engineers should "strive to increase the competence and prestige of the engineering profession." I feel that if my professor is purely grading based on his/her like x dislike of a person it takes away from the integrity of the engineering profession and all the other team members' grades.

EEP Sample 6: Although my truss was not finished I made sure that I was there to help my teammates out during their truss tests. When it came time for their tests, we found that our load cell had been damaged from being carried in x backpack for n number of days. Our team was then forted to use Ramrod's load cell. This was very disappointing to me after all the hard work we had poured into that device, so I decided to fur it for the testing of my truss. This was not a difficult repair, ' Metehan and I soldered the wires track on the strain gages, which had remained securely fixed. I could have just given up and used the other load cell, but that would nut have been in the spirit of the project. I felt that this situation follows closely to The Fundamental Principles of Engineering III, which states one should be, "striving to increase the competence and prestige of the engineering profession."

EEP Sample 7: Last Friday around midnight I received an email from Dr. Gooier stating that the final reports for the load cell and deflectometer reports were due by Friday at midnight. I had the deflectometer final report finished and ready to be summated but I did not have my teammates signatures. I was out of town and I left their phone numbers in my dorm so 1 had no way to get a hold of them, especially at that time of night. When I realized this two choices came to my mind. The first choice; was to simply wait until tomorrow and call Dr. Goulet and explain my situation. My second choice was forging my teammates signatures and summating the report. I believed they would understated given the situation. I decided against my second choice because of several reasons. The first and strongest reasons was that by committing forgery I would be in effect lying to my instructor, sag I believe is very unethical. There was also the fact that flee paper was already late so why do something so unethical when it would not even help my situation. The third reason was that I would be breaking the Code of Ethics of Engineers which states that "Engineers uphold and advance the integrity, honor and dignity of the engineering profession by: being honest and impartial, and servicing with fidelity the public, their employers and clients." By lying to my instructor I would obviously he doing something very dishonest and therefore I would he breaking the Code of Ethics of Engineers. Taking all of this into consideration I decided that the best and the only morally right solution to my problem was to wait until the next day and call my instructor.

EEP Sample 8: Over the past week, I have been culpable of not upholding Engineering Fundamental Cannon number four, which states that "Engineers shall act in such a matter as to uphold and enhance the honor, integrity and dignity of the profession." I needed to sign up for classes for the spring semester, so I sent my advisor an e-mail. I dispatched the c-mail on Wednesday evening. I was able to sign up for classes on Thursday after 3:00 PM, but be had not replied to my e mail until Thursday night which conveyed that he would not be able to advise me until Monday. So I tried some of my advisement codes from previous semesters and one of them worked. I had the decision to go ahead and sign up for my classes, or wait until I would be advised on Monday. I was worried that some of the classes that I had needed to procure would fill up and nevertheless, I could drop or add any of the classes that I had signed up for. So I went ahead and signed up for all of the classes that I had believed I would need for the subsequent semester. I sent my advisor an e-mail, conveying to him that Iliad presently signed up fix the classes that I thought I would need and he wrote back that "it was perfectly fine and that he was glad that I had went ahead and signed up."

EEP Sample 9: At the beginner of my Mechanics of Materials class, some of my classmates and I noticed the professor flipping through the pages in his book for a potential quiz problem. I had a decision to make: either look the other way or look at the page number- Discretely my classmates determined which page he had stopped on and got a good idea of which problems he could be planning to give a quiz on. I decided to look at the page number along with everyone else sitting in the front of the classroom. For the duration of class I studied the two problems on that page. After loosing track of time, the instructor decided nut to give the quiz. The following class period he gave a quiz and it was one of the problems I studied.

Because I had known which problems to study, I felt like I was at an advantage. Although, I also felt a little guilty even though I was not the only student that did this. According to the Fundamental Canon in the Code of Ethics of Engineers, "Engineers shall act in such a manner as to uphold old and enhance the honor, integrity
and dignity of the profession." I feel like studying those problems because I saw what page he bad turned to was not entirely truthful. If that situation wore to arise again, I would remember that I cheat myself when I do that. It is my job to study at home.

EEP Sample 10: Last week, a friends father asked my to help him repair a DVD player. The house had been hit by lightning and that had overloaded something in the device causing it to not work. I have had circuit analysis and digital logic bug did not feel comfortable doing any invasive work on the device. I felt no problem at all testing the board for continuity and attempting to locate any damaged components I could identify. After explaining my concerns to my friend's father he thanked me for my honesty and decided to take it into a shop. My choices were: a) attempt to fix the device and earn some money for my time or b)explain my concerns and decline the work. I those the latter option because I feel that my decision was supported by the second Fundamental Cannon that concerns performing services only in my area of competence. If a similar issue rises again I will probably make the-same decision although it always depend on the level of competence I feel I have on the given subject.

EEP Sample 11: The topic I have chosen for this week's discussion on ethics is my support of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). I have not formerly been a member of this society and did not consider this and ethical issue until reviewing the Fundamental Principles of the Code of Ethics of Engineers. My alternatives in this situation were: 1) join ASME or 2) do not join ASME. I chose the first option and joined ASME and I believe this decision to be correct based on the fourth Fundamental Principle that concerns the support of professional societies in my discipline. In the future I plan to join any nationally recognized societies in my discipline of engineering if I can afford it and if I am able to make a positive contribution.

EEP Sample 12: This week I did not face any memorable ethical dilemmas. When I sat down to write this BAR I was faced with the problem of not having any dilemma to write about. This in itself placed me in a precarious position. I could: 1) makeup an ethical dilemma -and fabricate the entire ethics section of this report, 2) try to think of an unrelated ethical dilemma and hope I received credit for it, or 3) write about the dilemma that was created by not having a dilemma. I chose to write about the problem I am facing this very instant. If I had chosen option 1 I would have been directly violating the second.

EEP Sample 13: I discovered what appeared to be some documents associated with a former class on the computer in the tab last week before class. My issue was what to do with them. I decided I could: a) look at them and see what ideas other people had come up with for this class; b) delete the files since they had apparently been left on a public computer; c) not look at them and leave them alone. I decided that I should leave them alone because I could be mistaken about their age and someone could have mislabeled them. Furthermore, it is nor my responsibility to clean random files off of school computers, which could be construed as adherence to Cannon 2: Engineers shall perform service only in the area of their competence. While gathering information on a project in order to get a better understanding of the problem is acceptable in the working world, looking at another students work in class is not and would be a violation of Cannon 6 of the Code of Ethics: to act in such a manner as to uphold the honor, integrity, and dignity of the profession. Also, looking at the work on the computer could have given me privileged information about the design reports that would have given me an unfair advantage over the other students and therefore violated Cannon 5 of the Code of Ethics: engineers shall not compete unfairly with others.

EEP Sample 14: I was having a hard time thinking of an issue that I had faced recently that would be relevant to Engineering Ethics and Professionalism. The only thing that could be relevant is my failure to turn in some homework this week. I did not turn in my dynamics homework on time this week and I suppose that could be relevant to Carmon 4 of the Fundamental Cannons. I faced the decision of a) complete and turn in my homework on time or b) turn it in late. Ibis may seem like a trivial topic of relevance but I believe it is an issue that engineering students race often I believe that in this instance the instructor cart be either an employer that demands the work or a client to whom it is my responsibility to finish the work. In this instance I decided to turn the work in late. I would have much preferred to turn it in on time but my financial situation demanded that I make it to a meeting at the financial aid office. I just moved here and neither my wife nor I have been able to find consistent work and the bills are rapidly becoming due. Therefore, I feel that I was obligated to make it to the meeting at financial aid instead of finish the assignment on time. I could probably have gotten it done earlier bin an opportunity for some odd work came up that I could not miss. In the future I will try not to have to make any moves on such short notice so as not to put myself in this compromising situation.

EEP Sample 15: This week I did not run across an ethical situation at school, but rather at work. It doesn't have to do with Engineering i any way; but I do believe it relates to professionalism and ethics. I am a lifeguard at a YMCA pool in Chattanooga. Last Friday, I was scheduled to get off at 3 pin and I had to leave then to get back to school to finish some work before certain professors left for the weekend. Well at 2 pin a group of thirty, day camp kids came to the pool. The said they were scheduled to swim for 2 hours. The problem was that I had to leave at 3 pin and that would leave only one guard with the thirty kids plus whoever else came. The dilemma is that our regulations say that there must be a I to 25 guard to patron, ratio. So I had to make a choice. I could let them stay and hope nothing happened to anyone while there was only one guard. The other option was to make the Day Camp kids leave so the ratio would be appropriate. Since my aquatics director was not there and I had seniority it was my call. I thought that since I was considered a professional in that position and that the association I worked under set out regulations that were to he followed, that the only professional would be to make the kids leave to keep with the proper ratio. So this is the choice I made. I think this could relate to the Engineering field in that if there are codes to be followed, the Code of Ethics for Engineers demands that they be followed This is the professional thing to do.

EEP Sample 16: During a quiz last week, I briefly observed a person near me displaying suspicious behavior. I suspected that the person might have been cheating, but I did not want to stare at someone for a long time, or the professor might have suspected me of cheating. Besides, I had to finish my own quiz to the best of my ability. This was definitely an ethical issue I encountered. I had several choices I could have made. First, I could have ignored the situation and kept out working. Second, I could have told the professor immediately after class about the person's actions. Third, since I did not have enough definitive evidence to prove this person was cheating, I could have approached the individual after class and confronted him about the situation in a professional and respectful manner Although I chose the first option, I should have chosen the third option. I violated Cannon 6 of the Code of Ethics of Engineers, which states that "engineers shall act in a manner as to uphold and enhance the honor, integrity, and dignity of the profession." I should have tried to stop any dishonest actions from occurring in the future. If this student was cheating, he was also violating Cannon 6 of the Code of Ethics of Engineers and the UTC Honor Code Pledge. In the future, I will definitely confront the person or take some action to prevent dishonesty from corrupting the engineer and his profession.

EEP Sample 17: Today I was faced with what I consider to be an issue of ethics. My friend John and I were working on our project for 435, the heat exchanger, and he kept saying he wanted Pop-Tarts. We began an experiment and had a few minutes to wait, so we decided to see if the vending machines in Holt had the Iced Strawberry Pop-Tarts that he wanted. We arrived in front of the Molt vending machine and discovered it had what he wanted. John asked me if I had change for a five. I responded I probably did and opened my wallet to check. I opened my wallet and I did have some one dollar bills, and this is where the ethics issue showed up: I recalled that I owed John at least a couple of dollars. l had two obvious options here: a) I could say nothing and hope he did not remember the debt, or b) remind hits of this debt and offer to pay it. I chose to remind John and he took me up on my offer to repay my debt. I chose to remind him because it was the honest thing to do, and I could afford to repay him and not be without any money in my wallet. I acted in a manner such that I enhanced the honor, integrity and dignity of the Engineering profession.

EEP Sample 18: During class on Monday night, we discussed the concept design for both the load cell and the deflectometer. My group finally completed our concept for both and we discussed how and what we could build them out of. However we didn't make very much progress toward completion. While we were talking in our group, Dr. Goulet was talking to the other group about their ideas. During this time I quit listening to our group and instead gave my attention to the other group's ideas. The ethical issue that I faced was this, fully aware that my group was not making any progress toward our concept, should I listen to the other team and ask them about their design? I considered two alternatives: 1) Talk to the other group in hopes that they would divulge some secrets to me; 2) Give my team the fall attention that they deserve and troubleshoot our dilemma. As not only an engineer but also a team member I could not simply stop listening to them for an idea. That kind of action would conflict with Fundamental Canon number four; Engineers shall act in professional matters for each employer or client as faithful agents or trustees, and shall avoid conflicts of interest. Therefore, I focused my attention back on my team in order to complete the task we were striving for.