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Malay

Chinese

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Did You ever heard about Code of Ethics?

Yes

Do You think that conflict of interest always occurs in engineers' working environment nowadays?

Yes

Soliciting or receiving bribe is against the law. In your opinion, why people still involve in it?

Desperate

Money

Being force

Other

One of the reasons that causes the collapse of Highland Tower Block 1 was the engineer not having designed and constructed a foundation to accommodate the lateral loads of a landslide. As an egineer, which subject will be your priority?

Public safety and health

Low cost

Other (please state)

Greenhill County employs individuals to perform building inspections in the county. Dissatisfied with the services provided by in-house inspectors and, as part of an effort to "contract out" certain county functions, the county decided to retain a private consulting engineering firm to perform building inspections. Greenhill County selects and retains Engineer A's firm. One of Engineer A's responsibilities is to inspect a building project developed by Enterprise, Inc.,would it be unethical for Engineer A to perform building inspection services?

Yes

Engineer A is employed by a software company and is involved in the design of specialized software in connection with the operations of facilities affecting the public health and safety. As part of the design of a software system, Engineer A conducts extensive testing,although the tests demonstrate that the software is safe to use under existing standards, Engineer A is aware of new draft standards that are about to be released by a standard setting organization. Testing is costly and time consuming.In your opinion,does Engineer A have a professional obligation to inform his company of the reasons for needed additional testing?

Yes