Design for Electrical Engineering

Case Study: A Vacation

For the case study presented below, apply the ethical decision-making paradigm presented in Section 11.5 to analyze the situation. Present potential courses of action and provide a discussion of them. Case Study: A Vacation You work for Rancott Company and were looking forward to an upcoming trip for weeks. Once you were assigned to help install Rancott's equipment for Boulding Corporation, you arranged a vacation at a nearby ski resort. The installation was scheduled to be completed on the 12th and your vacation would begin on the 13th. That meant a full week of skiing with three of your old college buddies. Unfortunately, not all of the equipment arrived on time. Eight of the ten identical units were installed by midmorning on the 12th. Even if the remaining two units had arrived that morning, it would take another full day to install them. However, you were informed that it might take as long as two more days for the units to arrive. Terrific, you sighed, "there goes my vacation and all the money I put down for the condo. No problem, replied Jerry, the Boulding engineer who had worked side by-side with you as each of the first eight units was installed. He said I can handle this for you. We did the first eight together. It's silly for you to hang around and blow your vacation. Jerry knew why you were sent to supervise installation of the new equipment. It had to be properly installed in order to avoid risking injuries to those who use it. Although you are aware of this, you are confident that Jerry is fully capable to supervise the installation of the remaining two units. What would you do