BMEG 455 FINAL EXAM VERIFIED ACCURATE STUDY
GUIDE
Characteristics of Professions/Professionals (10) - Answers -- 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) - Answers -- Practice in a
professional and ethical manner
- Be stewards of the profession
- Behave lawfully
Professional engineers major considerations (6) - Answers -- 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 - Answers -- Members are responsible for regulating the profession
Benefits of self-regulation - Answers -- In theory members have professional
knowledge/expertise to best inform regulation and maintain standards of excellence
Drawback of self-regulation - Answers -"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) - Answers -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) - Answers -- Make recommendations
- Refer to practice review
- Reprimand
- Apply conditions
- Suspension
- Fine up to $25,000
- Cancelation
what can't EGBC do (4) - Answers -- 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) - Answers --
Establishing bylaws*
- Regulating entrance to the profession
- Issuing certificates and seals
- Investigating complaints
- Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Bylaws - Answers -rules made by companies/ communities to control actions of its
members
Bylaws determine (7) - Answers -- 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) - Answers -- 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 - Answers -- "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 - Answers -- Thought experiments
, - Devised as models of decision-making in life-or-death situations, particularly medical
situations
A framework for allocating scarce ventilators - Answers -"Because there are multiple
ethically permissible approaches to allocating scarce life-sustaining resources and
because the public will bear the consequences of these decisions, knowledge of public
perspectives and moral points of reference on these issues is critical."
Guiding ethical principles/considerations (6) - Answers -- Prospects for short-term
survival (survive intensive care)
- Prospects for long-term survival (survive after discharge)
- Stage of life
- Pregnancy
- Fair chance
- Exclusion criteria (cardiac arrest, neurological event, severe burns)
4 Major Ethical Models - Answers -- Utilitarianism (Mill)
"Act-based" , "Rule-based"
- Rights Ethics (Locke)
- Virtue Ethics (Aristotle)
- Duty Ethics (Kant)
Utilitarianism - Answers -Produce the most good for the most people, based on
contribution to happiness
- Act-based: Rules are useful but "should be broken whenever doing so creates the
most good in a specific situation
- Rule-based: Rules must be taken seriously. They are morally authoritative and have
been designed to create the most good for all. Rules are there for a reason and are
meant to be followed.
Utilitarianism (problem:) - Answers -How do we define "most good"?
Who defines it?
Happiness is used because it is thought that everybody wants to be happy - it's a
universal desire.
Kant's Duty Ethics - Answers -Ethical action is informed by the motivation behind an
action, rather than the consequences of the action. Our duties can be derived from our
unique nature as human beings. Happiness can be achieved through "good will—the
desire and intention to do one's duty."
GUIDE
Characteristics of Professions/Professionals (10) - Answers -- 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) - Answers -- Practice in a
professional and ethical manner
- Be stewards of the profession
- Behave lawfully
Professional engineers major considerations (6) - Answers -- 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 - Answers -- Members are responsible for regulating the profession
Benefits of self-regulation - Answers -- In theory members have professional
knowledge/expertise to best inform regulation and maintain standards of excellence
Drawback of self-regulation - Answers -"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) - Answers -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) - Answers -- Make recommendations
- Refer to practice review
- Reprimand
- Apply conditions
- Suspension
- Fine up to $25,000
- Cancelation
what can't EGBC do (4) - Answers -- 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) - Answers --
Establishing bylaws*
- Regulating entrance to the profession
- Issuing certificates and seals
- Investigating complaints
- Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Bylaws - Answers -rules made by companies/ communities to control actions of its
members
Bylaws determine (7) - Answers -- 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) - Answers -- 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 - Answers -- "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 - Answers -- Thought experiments
, - Devised as models of decision-making in life-or-death situations, particularly medical
situations
A framework for allocating scarce ventilators - Answers -"Because there are multiple
ethically permissible approaches to allocating scarce life-sustaining resources and
because the public will bear the consequences of these decisions, knowledge of public
perspectives and moral points of reference on these issues is critical."
Guiding ethical principles/considerations (6) - Answers -- Prospects for short-term
survival (survive intensive care)
- Prospects for long-term survival (survive after discharge)
- Stage of life
- Pregnancy
- Fair chance
- Exclusion criteria (cardiac arrest, neurological event, severe burns)
4 Major Ethical Models - Answers -- Utilitarianism (Mill)
"Act-based" , "Rule-based"
- Rights Ethics (Locke)
- Virtue Ethics (Aristotle)
- Duty Ethics (Kant)
Utilitarianism - Answers -Produce the most good for the most people, based on
contribution to happiness
- Act-based: Rules are useful but "should be broken whenever doing so creates the
most good in a specific situation
- Rule-based: Rules must be taken seriously. They are morally authoritative and have
been designed to create the most good for all. Rules are there for a reason and are
meant to be followed.
Utilitarianism (problem:) - Answers -How do we define "most good"?
Who defines it?
Happiness is used because it is thought that everybody wants to be happy - it's a
universal desire.
Kant's Duty Ethics - Answers -Ethical action is informed by the motivation behind an
action, rather than the consequences of the action. Our duties can be derived from our
unique nature as human beings. Happiness can be achieved through "good will—the
desire and intention to do one's duty."
