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UNIT I
1. Define the term Profession
2. Define the term Engineering
3. Define the term Engineer
4. Specify how the Ethics is classified
5. List some of the Personal Ethics
6. Define the term Ethics
7. Define Engineering Ethics
8. What are Three Types of Enquiry
9. Define the term Bribe
10. List the complexities that are involved in moral situations.
11. What is Moral Dilemmas
12. What are the different levels of moral development suggested by Kohlberg?
13. Define Micro-Ethics
14. Define Macro-Ethics
15. What are steps used to resolve the Moral Dilemmas
16. Limitations or difficulties of Kohlberg Theory
17. What does Moral Autonomy mean?
18. What do you mean by the term Virtues
19. Engineers as Bureaucrat - Discuss
20. Engineers as Game Players - Discuss
21. Uses of Ethical Theories
22. Differentiate between Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism.
23. Define Ethical Pluralism and Ethical Relativism.
24. What is Consensus and Controversy?
25. What is Accountability?

UNIT II
26. What is the importance of experimentation?
27. List some of the importance of learning from the past.
28. What is meant by valid consent?
29. What are the responsibilities of engineers to society?
30. What are the types of Standards?
31. What is meant by industrial standards?
32. What do you understand by standard experiments?
33. Explain “informed consent”
34. Explain codes of ethics
35. Explain minimal compliance
36. Write about U.S Steamboat code
37. What is Babylon’s building code?
38. What do you mean by a regulated society
39. What are the uncertainties which occurs while designing
40. What are the primary responsibilities of Engineers
41. Define : Conscientiousness

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42. Explain : Moral Autonomy
43. Define : Accountability
44. List some function of codes.
45. List some Limitation of codes.

UNIT – III
46. What is meant by risk?
47. What is safety?
48. What is the idea behind acceptability?
49. What can the engineer do to ensure safety?
50. What are the various analyses that are available for testing the products?
51. What are the difficulties of accessing the personal risks?
52. What does Minimal Compliance mean?
53. How can you improve the product safety?
54. Name the techniques are available for reducing risk
55. What are the types of risks?
56. State some IEEE codes of ethics related to the Responsibility and Safety
57. What are the safety criteria for safe design to be followed by the engineers
58. What is the risk identification procedure
59. List some factors which is based on the acceptability of risk
60. Draw the plot between cost and risk
61. What is Scenario Analysis?
62. What are Failure Models and Effect Analysis?
63. What is Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)?
64. What is Event Tree Analysis (ETA)?
65. What is Risk Benefit Analysis?

UNIT-IV
66. What do you understand by collegiality?
67. What does Loyalty mean?
68. Explain misguided loyalty
69. What does authority mean?
70. List the classifications of Authority
71. What are the paramount obligations of an engineer?
72. What is meant by collective bargaining?
73. What is N.S.P.E code?
74. Explain the term confidentiality
75. What is duty ethics?
76. What is meant by utilitarianism?
77. Explain professional rights
78. What is patenting
79. Explain industrial espionage
80. What is meant by price fixing?
81. What is IPR explain main clauses
82. What is meant by discrimination in professionalism?

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83. List some example for Discrimination
84. What does whistle blowing mean
85. What is employee’s bill of rights?

UNIT-V
86. What is meant by multi National Corporation?
87. What are the three senses of relative values?
88. Explain : Ethical Relativism
89. Explain : Descriptive Relativism
90. Explain : Moral Relationalism
91. List some steps for Promoting Morally Just measures
92. What is technology transfer?
93. What is appropriate technology?
94. What is meant by environmental ethics?
95. What is acid rain?
96. What is computer ethics?
97. What is meant by biocentric ethics?
98. What is ecocentric ethics?
99. What is meant by Sentient-centered ethics?
100. Who are hackers?
101. Who are consulting engineers?
102. Engineer Involvement in Weapon Development
103. Explain competitive bidding for consulting engineers
104. What is bias and explain three types of bias
105. Explain your views on engineers as managers

UNIT I
PART-B

1. Discuss any two case studies on professional disagreements an

engineer may encounter and discuss how you would act in that
situation.
2. Where and how do moral problems arise in engineering?
3. What is professional responsibility? Discuss theories about virtues.
4.Discuss the scope and aims of Engineering ethics.
5.Discuss the theories pertaining to Moral Autonomy with specific
reference to consensus and controversy
6.What is virtue ethics?Explain the virtue and golden mean of Aristotle.
7.What are the theories about morality? Explain briefly about each
theory.

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UNIT II
PART – B

1.Compare and Contrast Engineering Experiments with Standard Experiments.

2. Discuss the problems with law in engineering .
3.What is Proper role of law in Engineering?
4.What are the aspects of engineering that make it appropriate to view
engineering projects as experiments?
5.Explain with some examples that engineers would learn not only from
their earlier design and operating results but also form those of others
engineers.
6.What are the general features of morally responsible engineers? Explain
each with appropriate examples?
7. In the cahallenger disaster ,examine if and how the principle actors
behaved as responsible experimenters ?
8. What are said to be the main elements included in “Informed
Consent”? Enumerate the conditions that would define valid consent.
9. Summarize the relationship between the codes and the experimental
nature of engineering in concurrence with the limitations ?

unit – 3 part B

1. Explain in detail about the effect of information on risk

assessments?
2. Discuss in detail testing strategies for safety?
3) Discuss in detail “risk benefit analysis and reducing risks?
4) Would knowledge of risk help you to have better safety standards or
safe products? Substitute your arguments with suitable case studies?
5) How to account publicly for benefits and risks?
6) Discuss the notion of “safe exit” using evacuation plans
for communities near nuclear power plants or chemical processing
plants?

7) What are the safety lessons we can learn from Three Mile Island and
Chernobyl safe exits?

Unit IV
PART - B

1. How are conflicts of interest solved?

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2. Discuss in detail about the employee rights.
3. What is the importance of loyalty and collegiality in teamwork?
4. What are the procedures to be followed for Whistle Blowing?
How can this be avoided?
5. Discuss the ways and means of reducing occupational crime in
industries.
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6. What is institutional authority? How do you correlate

institutional authority, expert authority and power?
7. Discuss faithful agent and public service arguments.
Faithful agent argument:
8. Discuss the right of conscientious refusal.
9. Discuss the right to recognition.
10.Discuss Intellectual Property Rights.
11.What is respect for authority? How far should it be
recognized by salaried professionals as morally justified?

UNIT V

PART - B

1. Explain the role of engineers as managers.

ENGINEERS AS MANAGERS

2. Explain environmental ethics.

3. What are the philosophical views of nature? Discuss ecocentric

ethics.

4. Explain engineers as expert witnesses and advisors.

5. Discuss an engineer’s involvement in weapons work.

6. Write a brief account on 'consulting engineering'.

7. Explain computer ethics.

8. Discuss the pros and cons of multinational companies from ethical

point of view.

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9. Discuss 'morally creative leaders' and participation in
professional societies.

10. Does Globalization solve the global issues?

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