Someone Solve part a,b and c just answer it in 4 to 5 lines.

a. On a recent co-op job my company had just shipped its latest and

greatest computer product. After a few months in the field it was

found to vastly lack the processor power it needed to do what it

claimed to do. The fix that followed had to have the shortest turn

around time I had ever seen. The fix was top quality, but the damage

had been done. A full scale test, or even simulation, would have

predicted this problem before shipping.

What should the co-op do? Trust specifications of others

subcomponents?

b. At my co-op position I was placed in a design team to create an audio

system. The project was a classic example of marketing wanting the

product so bad that time lines were regarded higher than the quality

of the product. The audio system's first prototypes arrived with many

problems, some of which could not be resolved until after the

product was released. It basically came down to the decision of

letting the consumers find all the problems, and then hoping that the

management would provide the team with more time and funding to

fix the problems, to try to keep the customers happy.

What to do?

c. In wastewater treatment plants, control systems are tested in the field.

The control systems are designed according to specifications and ISA/IEEE

rules, but the testing of how the systems will operate under real life

situations is done after installing them. Two questions arise:

First, can the plant design withstand additional rain, population increases,

weather problems, etc.?

Second, can the control system adequately analyze these new factors and

operate the plant successfully? If anything fails, the great danger is the

release of raw sewage/sludge and bacteria onto land and into the water

supply.

What can the engineer do? Will competence solve the problem?