BMEG 455 – Final Exam Flashcards – biomedical engineering study
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What are the primary responsibilities of professional engineers? - ANS ✔✔- Practice in a professional
and ethical manner
-Be stewards of the profession
-Behave lawfully
Whare are some major considerations of professional engineers? - ANS ✔✔-Obligation to the public
-Practice within the area of qualification
-Obligations under the Engineers and Geoscientists Act
-Maintain competence
-Presentation of consequences
-Act in a professional manner
What is meant by self regulation? What are some benefits of it? - ANS ✔✔- Members are responsible
for regulating the profession
Benefits: Members have the professional knowledge/expertise to best inform regulation and maintain
standards of excellence
Why can self - regulated bodies be vulnerable? - ANS ✔✔Because the regulator bodies are not just
accountable to the public but also accountable to members of the profession
What are the duties of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists BC - ANS ✔✔-Protect public
interest while respecting the practice of professional engineering
-Exercise power and functions and performing duties
-Enforcing the act
EGBC - Authority. What can they do and what can't they do? - ANS ✔✔Can do:
- Make recommendations
,-Refer to practice review
-Reprimand
-Apply conditions
-Suspension
-Fine upto 25000
-Cancelation
Can't do:
Resolve disputes or award compensation
-Give technical advice
-Demand performance by an EGBC professional
-Affect third party approval process
What was the reason behind the Quebec bridge disaster? - ANS ✔✔Miscommunication between
Theodore cooper and his team
What does the Engineers and Geoscientists Act provide procedure for? - ANS ✔✔-Establishing bylaws
-Regulating entrance to the profession
-Issuing certificates and seals
-Investigating complaints
-Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Role of Bylaws - ANS ✔✔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
, Role of Quality Management Guidelines. What does it outline? - ANS ✔✔-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)
What is NOT something that EGBC can do? (i.e. which is not true below) a) EGBC can cancel someone's
license b) EGBC can help to resolve disputes for members c) EGBC can recommend a course of action d)
EGBC can initiate a practice review for a member (i.e. audit them) - ANS ✔✔b) EGBC cannot resolve
disputes
What's the point of the stamp/seal: - ANS ✔✔-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
What are the 4 kinds of ethical theories. Describe each. - ANS ✔✔Utilitarianism - most good for most
people (Mill)
Rights Ethics - individual has right to life, liberty, property (John Lock)
Virtue Ethics - We seek the mean between deficiency and excess. (Aristotle)
Duty Ethics - The desire to do ones duty (Kant)
What is the reflexive principalism framework? - ANS ✔✔- A modern ethical framework to help
develop moral reasoning
1. Autonomy - supporting and respecting autonomous decisions of persons
2. Beneficence- providing benefits
3. Justice - Fairly distributing benefits, risks, costs
4. Nonmalificence - Avoiding causation of harm
Describe steps of EGAD: - ANS ✔✔Step 1: Read
Step 2: E - Ethical Issues
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What are the primary responsibilities of professional engineers? - ANS ✔✔- Practice in a professional
and ethical manner
-Be stewards of the profession
-Behave lawfully
Whare are some major considerations of professional engineers? - ANS ✔✔-Obligation to the public
-Practice within the area of qualification
-Obligations under the Engineers and Geoscientists Act
-Maintain competence
-Presentation of consequences
-Act in a professional manner
What is meant by self regulation? What are some benefits of it? - ANS ✔✔- Members are responsible
for regulating the profession
Benefits: Members have the professional knowledge/expertise to best inform regulation and maintain
standards of excellence
Why can self - regulated bodies be vulnerable? - ANS ✔✔Because the regulator bodies are not just
accountable to the public but also accountable to members of the profession
What are the duties of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists BC - ANS ✔✔-Protect public
interest while respecting the practice of professional engineering
-Exercise power and functions and performing duties
-Enforcing the act
EGBC - Authority. What can they do and what can't they do? - ANS ✔✔Can do:
- Make recommendations
,-Refer to practice review
-Reprimand
-Apply conditions
-Suspension
-Fine upto 25000
-Cancelation
Can't do:
Resolve disputes or award compensation
-Give technical advice
-Demand performance by an EGBC professional
-Affect third party approval process
What was the reason behind the Quebec bridge disaster? - ANS ✔✔Miscommunication between
Theodore cooper and his team
What does the Engineers and Geoscientists Act provide procedure for? - ANS ✔✔-Establishing bylaws
-Regulating entrance to the profession
-Issuing certificates and seals
-Investigating complaints
-Enter into interprovincial agreements to practice
Role of Bylaws - ANS ✔✔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
, Role of Quality Management Guidelines. What does it outline? - ANS ✔✔-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)
What is NOT something that EGBC can do? (i.e. which is not true below) a) EGBC can cancel someone's
license b) EGBC can help to resolve disputes for members c) EGBC can recommend a course of action d)
EGBC can initiate a practice review for a member (i.e. audit them) - ANS ✔✔b) EGBC cannot resolve
disputes
What's the point of the stamp/seal: - ANS ✔✔-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
What are the 4 kinds of ethical theories. Describe each. - ANS ✔✔Utilitarianism - most good for most
people (Mill)
Rights Ethics - individual has right to life, liberty, property (John Lock)
Virtue Ethics - We seek the mean between deficiency and excess. (Aristotle)
Duty Ethics - The desire to do ones duty (Kant)
What is the reflexive principalism framework? - ANS ✔✔- A modern ethical framework to help
develop moral reasoning
1. Autonomy - supporting and respecting autonomous decisions of persons
2. Beneficence- providing benefits
3. Justice - Fairly distributing benefits, risks, costs
4. Nonmalificence - Avoiding causation of harm
Describe steps of EGAD: - ANS ✔✔Step 1: Read
Step 2: E - Ethical Issues
