GE8076 / GE6075 Professional Ethics in Engineering - Unit III - Question Bank with Anna University Previous Semester Questions

UNIT III 

UNIT III ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION

Engineering as Experimentation – Engineers as responsible Experimenters – Codes of Ethics – A Balanced Outlook on Law.

PART A

1. How can an engineering work/project/activity view as an experiment?
2. What are the merits of standardized experiments? (Apr/May 2018)
3. What are the limitations of standardized experimentation? (Nov/Dec 2018)
4. What is the need to view engineering projects as experiments? (Nov/Dec 2016)
5. Why is engineering referred as a social experimentation?
6. What are similarities between engineering projects and standard experiments?
7. Differentiate scientific experiments and engineering projects. (May/June 2016)
8. What is the need to view engineering projects as experiments? (Nov/Dec 2016)
9. What are the uncertainties occur in the model design? (Apr/May 2017) (Apr/May 2019)
10. What is continuous monitoring?
11. What is experimental control?
12. What are the conditions required to define a valid consent?
13. What is meant by ‘informed consent’?
14. What are the elements of informed consent? (Nov/Dec 2019)
15. What are the two main elements which are included to understand informed consent?
16. What are the conditions that are essential for a valid informed consent? (Nov/Dec 2015)
17. What are responsibilities (general features) that engineer, as an experimenter owe to the society?
18. What are the general features of morally responsible engineers?
19. What is meant by conscientiousness? (Nov/Dec 2017)
20. Write note on ‘Big Five Model of Personality’.
21. What does conscientious moral commitment mean?
22. What are replicable facets of conscientiousness?
23. What are non-replicable facets of conscientiousness?
24. What is accountability?
25. What is research ethics?
26. Why is research ethics important?
27. What is the purpose of various types of standards?
28. Define code.
29. What is the purpose of code of ethics?
30. What are the features of code of ethics?
31. What are the codes of ethics? (Apr/May 2019)
32. What are the codes of ethics referred to? (Nov/Dec 2017)
33. Enumerate the roles of codes in ethics of profession. (Nov/Dec 2016)
34. What are advantages of codes of ethics? (Nov/Dec 2018)
35. What are the limitations of code of ethics? (Nov/Dec 2015) (Apr/May 2018) (Nov/Dec 2019)
36. Give the limitations of codes. (May/June 2016)
37. Mention some forums or organizations that formulate codes for engineers.
38. What are the pros and cons of industrial standardization?
39. List the advantages of industrial standards.
40. Name some of the important code of ethics published by engineering societies.
41. What is the need for laws?
42. What are the problems with the law in engineering?
43. How does the law facilitate ethics in engineering? (Apr/May 2017)
44. What is voluntary and involuntary risk?
45. What are the major components of a Space Shuttle?
46. What are the major causes for the failure of Challenger Space Shuttle?
47. Name the aerospace experts and scientists who were associated with the Launching of challenger?

PART B

1. Explain elaborately ‘Engineering as experimentation’.
2. Compare between Engineering projects and Standard Experiments.
3. Compare and contrast engineering experiments with standard experiments (with suitable examples). (Apr/May 2018) (Nov/Dec 2018)
4. How can engineer become a responsible experimenter? Highlight the code of ethics for engineers. (May/June 2016) (Apr/May 2017)
5. Explain in detail about engineers as responsible experimenters. (Nov/Dec 2016)
6. Discuss on ‘Engineers as responsible experimenters’. (Nov/Dec 2019)
7. Explain the characteristics of Morally Responsible Engineers. (Apr/May 2019)
8. Discuss about ‘Ethics in research’.
9. What is research ethics? Discuss the models of research ethics with suitable examples. (Apr/May 2018) (Nov/Dec 2018)
10. Explain the code of Ethics to be followed by an Engineer. (Apr/May 2019)
11. Define code of ethics. Explain about the purpose of code of ethics, features of engineering code of ethics and, duties and professional obligations of engineers.
12. What are codes of ethics? State and explain the functions of codes of ethics and the objections to codes. (Nov/Dec 2017)
13. What is the importance of codes of ethics? Explain in detail. (Apr/May 2017)
14. What are the different roles and function of ‘Code of Ethics’? (Nov/Dec 2015)
15. What are the functions of codes of ethics? (Nov/Dec 2019)
16. What are the limitations of code of ethics?
17. Discuss on the roles played by the code of ethics set by professional societies. (May/June 2016)
18. Write note on ‘Industrial Standards’.
19. Explain in detail the powerful support and proper role of law in engineering. (Nov/Dec 2015)
20. Explain in detail about Balanced Outlook on Law. (Nov/Dec 2016)
21. Discuss the problems associated with laws in Engineering and Enumerate the proper Role of Law in Engineering. (Nov/Dec 2017)
22. With a case study, explain the ‘learn from the past’ in engineering experimentation. (Nov/Dec 2015)
23. Discuss the ethical issues involved in challenger case study.

Dr.S.Selvaganesan
Professor & HoD/IT
JJCET