BMEG 455 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Characteristics of Professions/Professionals (10) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Practice in a professional
and ethical manner
- Be stewards of the profession
- Behave lawfully
Professional engineers major considerations (6) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Members are responsible for regulating the profession
Benefits of self-regulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- In theory members have professional
knowledge/expertise to best inform regulation and maintain standards of excellence
,Drawback of self-regulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Make recommendations
- Refer to practice review
- Reprimand
- Apply conditions
- Suspension
- Fine up to $25,000
- Cancelation
what can't EGBC do (4) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
Establishing bylaws*
- Regulating entrance to the profession
- Issuing certificates and seals
, - Investigating complaints
- Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Bylaws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅rules made by companies/ communities to control actions of its
members
Bylaws determine (7) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Use of seal
- Maintenance of project documentation (10 years min)
- Application of direct supervision
- Procedures for field reviews
- Independent review of structural designs
- Use of the professional guidelines
- Can put in a request for consideration of other guidelines (regulation is dynamic)
Stamp/ Seal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- "Visible commitment to the standards of the professions...
signifies to the user of the Document that an engineer has accepted professional responsibility for the
content..."
Trolley Problems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Thought experiments
- Devised as models of decision-making in life-or-death situations, particularly medical situations
Characteristics of Professions/Professionals (10) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Practice in a professional
and ethical manner
- Be stewards of the profession
- Behave lawfully
Professional engineers major considerations (6) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Members are responsible for regulating the profession
Benefits of self-regulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- In theory members have professional
knowledge/expertise to best inform regulation and maintain standards of excellence
,Drawback of self-regulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Make recommendations
- Refer to practice review
- Reprimand
- Apply conditions
- Suspension
- Fine up to $25,000
- Cancelation
what can't EGBC do (4) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
Establishing bylaws*
- Regulating entrance to the profession
- Issuing certificates and seals
, - Investigating complaints
- Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Bylaws - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅rules made by companies/ communities to control actions of its
members
Bylaws determine (7) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Use of seal
- Maintenance of project documentation (10 years min)
- Application of direct supervision
- Procedures for field reviews
- Independent review of structural designs
- Use of the professional guidelines
- Can put in a request for consideration of other guidelines (regulation is dynamic)
Stamp/ Seal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- "Visible commitment to the standards of the professions...
signifies to the user of the Document that an engineer has accepted professional responsibility for the
content..."
Trolley Problems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Thought experiments
- Devised as models of decision-making in life-or-death situations, particularly medical situations
