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

UNIT 4

UNIT IV SAFETY, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS

Safety and Risk – Assessment of Safety and Risk – Risk Benefit Analysis and Reducing Risk – Respect for Authority – Collective Bargaining – Confidentiality – Conflicts of Interest –Occupational Crime – Professional Rights – Employee Rights – Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – Discrimination. 

PART A

1. Define safety.(Nov/Dec 2017)
2. Define risk.
3. Define risk in professional ethics perspective (Nov/Dec 2016)
4. State the reasons that may cause risk. (Nov/Dec 2019)
5. Define the term safety and relate it to risk. (Apr/May 2018) (Nov/Dec 2018)
6. Write note on ‘safety and risk’.
7. What are the factors for safety and risk?
8. List the different methods to determine the risk.
9. What are the positive uncertainties in determining risks?
10. What are the criteria that one should have knowledge, in order to determine the risk?
11. Define acceptability of risks.
12. Explain the two types of risk.
13. What is safe risk and acceptability of risk?
14. What is ‘Safe Exits’? (Nov/Dec 2019)
15. Define risk-benefit analysis. (Nov/Dec 2015)
16. What are the reasons for Risk-benefit analysis?
17. What are the limitations in risk-benefit analysis?
18. What is the use of risk analysis? (Apr/May 2017)
19. Differentiate between risk analysis and risk-benefit analysis. (May/June 2016)
20. List the methods that can be applied when testing is inappropriate.
21. What is voluntary risk?
22. What is risk management?
23. What are elements of risk management programme?
24. What are internal responsibilities of engineers?
25. What are external responsibilities of engineers?
26.  What are the virtues involved in team-play?
27. What is collegiality?                                                                                             
28. List the elements of collegiality.
29. What are two senses of loyalty?
30. What is agency loyalty?
31. What is attitude loyalty / identification loyalty?
32. What is authority?
33. What are two types of authority?
34. What is institutional authority?
35. What is expert authority?
36. What is collective bargaining? (Nov/Dec 2016)
37. Define the term collective bargaining. (Apr/May 2017)
38. What does the term Collective Bargaining refer to? (Nov/Dec 2017)
39. What are the processes of collective bargaining?
40. Distinguish between professionalism and unionism.
41. What is meant by Confidentiality? Why it is needed? (Apr/May 2018)
42. Write note on ‘Privileged Information’.
43. Write note on ‘Proprietary Information’.
44. What is trade secret?
45. What is meant by Conflicts of Interest? (Nov/Dec 2018)
46. What are the types of ‘Conflict of Interest’?
47. Why does a conflict of interests arise?
48. What is a bribe?
49. What are the ethical reasons for not tolerating bribery?
50. What is a gift?
51. What are the differences between a gift and a bribe?
52. When is a gift a bribe?
53. What is meant by ‘kickbacks’?
54. What are occupational crimes?
55. Write note on ‘white collar crime’.
56. List the types of occupational crimes.                                                           
57. List the three types of rights.
58. Define employee rights.
59. Differentiate between contractual and non-contractual rights.
60. What is Professional right? (Apr/May 2019)
61. Differentiate between Human rights and Professional rights.
62. Differentiate between Weak Preferential Treatment and Strong Preferential Treatment.
63. What is meant by whistle blowing? (Nov/Dec 2015)
64. Define Discrimination.
65. What is intellectual property?
66. What is Intellectual Property Right (IPR)? (May/June 2016)
67. Define IPR. (Apr/May 2019)
68. What are the essential elements of IPR?
69. What is the need for protection to IPR?
70. What is the importance of IPR?
71. What is meant by copyright?
72. What is patent?
73. What are the requirements of Patents?
74. What is trademark?
75. What is trade secret?

PART B

1. Define the term Risk and Safety. How we, Engineers assess the safety? (Nov/Dec 2016)
2. Discuss the testing strategies for safety with suitable examples. Mention the difficulties in assessing the personal risks. (Apr/May 2018)
3. ‘Safety in a commodity comes with a price’ – Substantiate with explanation. Discuss how the knowledge of risk is always better for safety with suitable examples. (Apr/May 2018) (Nov/Dec 2018)
4. What are the different methods (testing) to determine the risk (testing for safety)?
5. Explain risk-benefit analysis, difficulties in risk-benefit analysis, and ethical implications on risk-benefit analysis.
6. Describe the concept of Risk-Benefit analysis with an example. (Apr/May 2017)
7. Explain the risk benefit analysis and conceptual problems associated with it. (Nov/Dec 2019).
8. Explain the procedure in risk benefit analysis and discuss its role in reducing risks with suitable examples. (Nov/Dec 2018)
9. State the necessity of risk-benefit analysis.
10. Describe the concept of (1) Risk benefits analysis (2) Fault tree analysis.
11. Discuss the Event Tree Analysis with some practical example of risk analysis. (Nov/Dec 2016)
12. Write notes on Personal risk, Public risk, voluntary risk, and reducing risk.
13. What are the factors that affect risk acceptability? What is the use of knowledge of risk acceptance to engineer? (May/June 2016)
14. What are the safety lessons from ‘The Challenger’?
15. Discuss the concept of safe exit in the Chernobyl Case Study. (Nov/Dec 2015)
16. Write notes on (i) Collegiality (ii) Loyalty (iii) (ii) Respect for Authority (iv) Collective bargaining
17. Discuss on the importance of Collective Bargaining. (Apr/May 2019)
18. Discuss the ‘faithful agent argument’ and ‘public service argument’of collective with suitable examples. (Nov/Dec 2018)
19. Explain Institutional Authority and Expert Authority.
20. Write note on (i) Confidentiality (ii) Conflicts of Interest
21. What is meant by Conflict of Interest? Distinguish between General and Professional Conflicts of Interest and Discuss the various types of Conflict of Interest. (Nov/Dec 2017)
22. What are occupational crimes? Explain any one in detail. (Nov/Dec 2015)
23. Explain Professional rights.
24. Discuss in detail about the “Employee Rights” and its role in the organizations. (Apr/May 2017)
25. Explain “Employee Rights” and its role in Business Organisations. (Apr/May 2019)
26. Explain Employee rights and the two types.
27. Write note on ‘whistle blowing’.
28. Explain elaborately ‘Discrimination’.
29. What is Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)? Explain any one essential element an IPR. (Nov/Dec 2015)
30. What are Intellectual Property Rights? Explain the elements of Intellectual Property Rights in detail and benefits of IPRS. (Nov/Dec 2017)
31. What are the elements of intellectual property rights? Explain. (Nov/Dec 2019)
32. Write notes (i) Trade mark (ii) Trade Secret (iii) Copyrights (iv) Patents
33. What are the benefits of IPR? Why is IP enforcement important?
34. Discuss the significance of intellectual property rights. Also explain the legislation covering IPR in India. (May/June 2016)
35. Discuss the Bhopal disaster. Explain the responsibility of engineer in the design stage itself before the event of an accident.

PART C

1. Explain in detail about the assessment of safety and risk. (Nov/Dec 2017)           
2. 'Safety in a commodity comes with a price' - substantiate with explanation. Discuss how the knowledge of risk is always better for safety with suitable examples. (Dec 2018)   
3. Explain the challenger space shuttle disaster. Discuss the violation of moral, ethical and professional codes of standards in it. Write a conclusion to avoid such disaster in future. (Apr 2018)
4. Explain the Bhopal gas tragedy. Discuss the violation of moral, ethical and professional codes of standards in it. Write a conclusion to avoid such tragedy in future. (Apr 2018)
5. Explain in detail the challenger accident. What are the ethical problems involved in this? (Dec 2019)
6. 'A nuclear accident anywhere is a nuclear accident everywhere'. Explain this with respect to Three Mile Island Case Study. (Dec 2019)

Dr.S.Selvaganesan
Professor & HoD/IT
JJCET