BMEG 455 – Final Exam Study Guide (Biomedical Engineering Advanced Review,
Practice Questions & Answers)
Characteristics of Professions/Professionals (10) - ✔✔- Paid to perform service
- Prolonged training
- Specialized knowledge
- Clients rather than customers
- Professional judgment can supersede a client's wishes
- Professional membership
- Code of Ethics
- Self-regulating
- Adhere to legal mechanisms to protect public
- Responsible for services directly or under supervision
Professional engineers primary responsibilities (3) - ✔✔- Practice in a professional and ethical
manner
- Be stewards of the profession
- Behave lawfully
Professional engineers major considerations (6) - ✔✔- Obligation to the public
- Practice within area of qualification
- Obligations under the Engineers and Geoscientists Act
- Maintain competence
- Presentation of consequences
- Act in a professional manner
,Self-Regulation - ✔✔- Members are responsible for regulating the profession
Benefits of self-regulation - ✔✔- In theory members have professional knowledge/expertise to
best inform regulation and maintain standards of excellence
Drawback of self-regulation - ✔✔"Self-regulated professions have a particular vulnerability
because the regulator bodies are accountable not only to the public but to the members of the
profession".
- may tend to protect their own preferentially to the public
Duties of EGBC Association (3) - ✔✔1. Protect the public interest while respecting the practice
of professional engineering
2. Exercise powers and functions and perform duties
3. Enforce the act
what can EGBC do (7) - ✔✔- Make recommendations
- Refer to practice review
- Reprimand
- Apply conditions
- Suspension
- Fine up to $25,000
- Cancelation
what can't EGBC do (4) - ✔✔- Resolve disputes or award compensation
, - Give technical advice
- Demand performance by an EGBC professional
- Affect the approval process by third parties
Engineers and Geoscientists Act (est. 1920) provides procedures for (5) - ✔✔- Establishing
bylaws*
- Regulating entrance to the profession
- Issuing certificates and seals
- Investigating complaints
- Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Bylaws - ✔✔rules made by companies/ communities to control actions of its members
Bylaws determine (7) - ✔✔- Procedure for conduct of meeting
- Rules for elections
- How to manage funds
- Requirements for professional practice
- Processes for quality management*
- Acceptable complaint resolution alternatives
- Liability insurance declaration
Quality Management Guidelines Outline (7) - ✔✔- Use of seal
- Maintenance of project documentation (10 years min)
- Application of direct supervision
- Procedures for field reviews
- Independent review of structural designs
Practice Questions & Answers)
Characteristics of Professions/Professionals (10) - ✔✔- Paid to perform service
- Prolonged training
- Specialized knowledge
- Clients rather than customers
- Professional judgment can supersede a client's wishes
- Professional membership
- Code of Ethics
- Self-regulating
- Adhere to legal mechanisms to protect public
- Responsible for services directly or under supervision
Professional engineers primary responsibilities (3) - ✔✔- Practice in a professional and ethical
manner
- Be stewards of the profession
- Behave lawfully
Professional engineers major considerations (6) - ✔✔- Obligation to the public
- Practice within area of qualification
- Obligations under the Engineers and Geoscientists Act
- Maintain competence
- Presentation of consequences
- Act in a professional manner
,Self-Regulation - ✔✔- Members are responsible for regulating the profession
Benefits of self-regulation - ✔✔- In theory members have professional knowledge/expertise to
best inform regulation and maintain standards of excellence
Drawback of self-regulation - ✔✔"Self-regulated professions have a particular vulnerability
because the regulator bodies are accountable not only to the public but to the members of the
profession".
- may tend to protect their own preferentially to the public
Duties of EGBC Association (3) - ✔✔1. Protect the public interest while respecting the practice
of professional engineering
2. Exercise powers and functions and perform duties
3. Enforce the act
what can EGBC do (7) - ✔✔- Make recommendations
- Refer to practice review
- Reprimand
- Apply conditions
- Suspension
- Fine up to $25,000
- Cancelation
what can't EGBC do (4) - ✔✔- Resolve disputes or award compensation
, - Give technical advice
- Demand performance by an EGBC professional
- Affect the approval process by third parties
Engineers and Geoscientists Act (est. 1920) provides procedures for (5) - ✔✔- Establishing
bylaws*
- Regulating entrance to the profession
- Issuing certificates and seals
- Investigating complaints
- Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Bylaws - ✔✔rules made by companies/ communities to control actions of its members
Bylaws determine (7) - ✔✔- Procedure for conduct of meeting
- Rules for elections
- How to manage funds
- Requirements for professional practice
- Processes for quality management*
- Acceptable complaint resolution alternatives
- Liability insurance declaration
Quality Management Guidelines Outline (7) - ✔✔- Use of seal
- Maintenance of project documentation (10 years min)
- Application of direct supervision
- Procedures for field reviews
- Independent review of structural designs
