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    An engineer may face moral dilemmas when obligations to their employer conflict with other duties. There are steps to approach such dilemmas, including identifying conflicting obligations, gathering facts, ranking obligations by importance, considering alternatives, and making a reasoned decision. For example, an engineer discovering a safety hazard in a product may inform superiors, but if they disagree and refuse to change anything, a dilemma arises. If reporting the issue externally, the engineer risks being fired, so they should first make every effort within the company to resolve it, and only notify authorities if those efforts fail and the company has been advised.

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    An engineer may face moral dilemmas when obligations to their employer conflict with other duties. There are steps to approach such dilemmas, including identifying conflicting obligations, gathering facts, ranking obligations by importance, considering alternatives, and making a reasoned decision. For example, an engineer discovering a safety hazard in a product may inform superiors, but if they disagree and refuse to change anything, a dilemma arises. If reporting the issue externally, the engineer risks being fired, so they should first make every effort within the company to resolve it, and only notify authorities if those efforts fail and the company has been advised.

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    An engineer may face moral dilemmas when obligations to their employer conflict with other duties. There are steps to approach such dilemmas, including identifying conflicting obligations, gathering facts, ranking obligations by importance, considering alternatives, and making a reasoned decision. For example, an engineer discovering a safety hazard in a product may inform superiors, but if they disagree and refuse to change anything, a dilemma arises. If reporting the issue externally, the engineer risks being fired, so they should first make every effort within the company to resolve it, and only notify authorities if those efforts fail and the company has been advised.

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    An engineer may face moral dilemmas when obligations to their employer conflict with other duties. There are steps to approach such dilemmas, including identifying conflicting obligations, gathering facts, ranking obligations by importance, considering alternatives, and making a reasoned decision. For example, an engineer discovering a safety hazard in a product may inform superiors, but if they disagree and refuse to change anything, a dilemma arises. If reporting the issue externally, the engineer risks being fired, so they should first make every effort within the company to resolve it, and only notify authorities if those efforts fail and the company has been advised.

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    3. Moral dilemma.

    An engineer in a situation that put him to test, what should


    the engineer
    do?
    Moral dilemma are situations in which two or more moral obligation or duties
    come into conflict with one another. There are several steps in approaching
    moral dilemmas such as identify the conflicting moral obligations, gather facts
    regarding the conflicting moral obligations, rank the moral obligations in order of
    importance, consider alternative way of resolving the moral dilemmas and arrive
    at a carefully reasoned judgment.
    Engineers often work as part of a design team, making decisions about a product
    or service that not only affect others, but also are being affected by the work of
    others. The majority of engineers work for a corporation, a consulting firm,
    governmental agency etc. and will sometimes be faced with conflicts among
    loyalty to their employer, to society, to their conscience, and to their profession.
    For example, consider a situation where you find that a product may violate the
    law or creates a safety hazard. When you inform your superior and he/she react
    positively, then there will be no dilemma. However if he/she disagrees or the
    company decides not to change what it is doing, then a dilemma arise. If you
    make your complaints known outside the company, there is a high probability
    that you will be fired for your trouble which is a great personal sacrifice. In this
    case as engineer he should make every effort within the company to have the
    corrective action taken. If these efforts are of no avail, and after advising the
    company of his intentions, he should notify the client (customer) and responsible
    authorities of the facts.

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