a) An engineer from a manufacturing engineering company committed to spend two years in a particular job. The first year he would spend in Design Engineering learning the overall system for a very complex piece of office equipment. This product was in the final stage of development with production start-up at the end of the year. His second year would be spent on the manufacturing floor solving performance problems. In the past, manufacturing had experienced great difficulty determining the cause of the final test failures. During his training, a basic performance assumption that was explained to him bothered him. He challenged it, and was told in no uncertain terms that particular challenge was outside the scope of his responsibilities, that he was wrong, and that he should just accept it as a known fact. Explain the professional actions this engineer should undertake. (7 marks) b) A Senior Design Engineer and a Senior Fabrication Engineer scheduled a visit to review a very complex tool for an injection molded part at the supplier's plant. They had been there on previous occasions over a span of many months. This complex long lead part was being developed with early supplier involvement. The Senior Design Engineer was the first to submit his trip report, and his manager noticed that the hotel bill was for a double room. He then called manager of the Senior Fabrication Engineer to check if the other engineer also charged for a room and to see if it was for the same room. Both engineers were known to enjoy their time in bars and the thought was that they might have shared a room and double billed it to work around the daily expense limit on food. When the other expense report came in, it was for a different room number. It was also for another double room. The design manager then called the supplier to ask a technical question about the very complex tool related to the visit report in an attempt to see if the supplier might make some remarks that would shed some lights on the issue. To his surprise, the supplier stated there had been no review of the complex tool. He stated that two weeks prior to the visit, he asked the two engineers to reschedule the tool inspection since a competitor company was in- plant for a tool tryout. He further stated that the only contact was a brief status meeting in the hotel coffee shop. Page 3 of 4 COEB422 / COEB3012, Semester 2, 2020/2021 The design manager then confronted his engineer with the information he had gathered and asked for an explanation. The Senior Design Engineer immediately broke down and stated that they had made plans for the visit with some women they met on the previous trip and therefore did not change the date of the visit as requested by the supplier. The Senior Design Engineer resigned immediately. Since he is married, he did not want an investigation. What should the company do about their Senior Engineers? Explain the ethical actions of the two engineers, associated with the false visit report and charging the company for the double rooms. Where should a company draw the line on technical versus personal moral issues versus business issues? (8 marks)