Question 3 Ethics for engineering professionals [11] 3.1 Read the case study below and answer questions that follow. You are an engineer working for a company that manufactures explosives. The company is developing a new type of explosive called ROX. You are responsible for testing the new explosive. You are in the middle of conducting a range of crucial tests for cap sensitivity of ROX. Suddenly, your boss asks you to finish the test reports within a week because an important potential customer will visit the company next week and wants to have a look at the first test reports. Your first reaction was to refuse the request because you are not able to finish the test report within a week, you need to do more tests. These tests are crucial for gaining good insight in the sensitivity of the new explosive. Your boss instructs you to abandon the planned other tests and to start writing the report immediately. Later, there will be more time to do the other tests. Your boss also tells you that if you refuse, he will ask your junior colleague to write the report. You answer your boss by emphasising that you need more time to do all the planned tests. An informed report can only be based on the statistical analysis of sufficient data. You point out to your boss that your junior colleague is not even aware that all the planned data is required for the statistical analysis and therefore not competent to produce a sound report. Afterwards, your junior colleague notifies you that he will write the report if the boss asks him to do so. 3.1.1 Name ONE ethical dilemma that is best suitable for your situation. (2) 3.1.2 Suppose the next day you decide to follow your employer's order to finish the report immediately, abandoning the other tests. Can this choice be justified in ethical terms? (2) 3.1.3 Identify Deon Rossouw's four steps that you must follow before you approve the new explosive, to ensure that your decision is ethical and professional. (4) 3.2 Which of the following projects would you regard as unethical for engineers, technologists and scientists to become involved in. Explain your answer. (3) a) A mine that is designed and developed according to the health, safety and environmental legislation and standards of the country. b) Designing and building the gas chambers of Auschwitz in which hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed. c) Designing modern weapon systems for the military