As a junior engineer in a small company you are involved in designing a production line for
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As a junior engineer in a small company you are involved in designing a production line for a new product. The company CEO believes that this new product will make a great deal of money and wants to get it into production as soon as possible. Your immediate supervisor wants to please the CEO and get things moving, so he starts ordering equipment and hires contractors to expand the building. While glancing at a copy of the new project your boss gave to the CEO, you discover an error. The break even point and the return on investment are both high by a factor of 10. When you ask your immediate supervisor about this, you are told that it is none of your concern. What do you do?
Use the Engineering Ethics Matrix to analyze the following situations.
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Exploring Engineering An Introduction to Engineering and Design
ISBN: 978-0123747235
2nd edition
Authors: Philip Kosky, George Wise, Robert Balmer, William Keat