ENGR 2392 Exam 2 Questions and Answers 100% Correct

ENGR 2392 Exam 2 Questions and Answers 100% Correct Given the scope of the problems and cheating exposed in the VW emissions cheating scandal, there's reason to believe the scandal will spread to gasoline engines and carbon dioxide emissions, which are considered a prime cause of climate change. True Car giant Volkswagen has been fined €1bn (£880m) by German prosecutors over its diesel emissions scandal. True Volkswagen has admitted that the emissions cheating began almost a decade earlier after engineers and managers realized that a new generation of diesel motors could not meet United States air quality standards legally. True VW was plunged into its deepest-ever crisis ever when it came to light that the carmaker had installed emissions cheating software into 11 million diesel engines worldwide. True A thorough review of Volkswagen's internal documents support the position that Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen's chief executive was not aware of any possible emissions cheating by the company. False The New Cheating Economy ---- In 2006, Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk was found to have fabricated a series of experiments in stem cell research. Before his fraud was exposed he was famous for his two Science journal articles in which he reported success in creating human embryonic stem cells through cloning. He is now infamous for his massive case of fraud and scientific misconduct. True The New Cheating Economy ---- At Penn State, professor Craig Grimes has been accused of defrauding the National Institutes of Health and Advanced Research Projects Agency of federal grant monies, to the tune of $3 million. Grimes requested grants to study the measurement of gases in a patient's blood, but the money was not spent for this research. Instead, clinical trials were never performed, and the grant funds were misappropriated, largely for the personal use of Grimes. Grimes has been charged with making false statements, money laundering, and fraud. He faces up to 35 years in prison and a fine of $750,000. True The New Cheating Economy ---- At Syracuse University the NCAA found that academic work submitted wasn't done by Syracuse players. As part of the investigation, Syracuse used metadata analysis and found that "the 'Author' and 'Last edited by author' field was attributed to someone other than the student-athlete. True The New Cheating Economy ---- Every month, hundreds of students put assignments up for bid on F and Upwork. The going rate for taking a class is in the range of $600-$750 to get professionals to do the work. True The New Cheating Economy ---- For Bengü Sezen at Columbia University, over the course of a decade, conducted a massive and sustained effort to manipulate and falsify research data. She even created fictitious people and organizations to back up her data and results. Sezen was found guilty of 21 counts of research misconduct, with at least nine papers found to be falsified, fabricated, plagiarized, or unable to be replicated. True Apple is closing the technological loophole that lets authorities hack into iPhones, angering police and other officials and reigniting a debate over whether the government has a right to get into the personal devices that are at the center of modern life. True Individuals, companies, institutions and government agencies that have implemented strong encryption are no longer are no longer subject to massive data breaches and cyber-theft. False Former FBI Director James Comey stated that the tension between privacy and should not be resolved by corporations that sell stuff for a living. True The FBI is recommended to the White House that it decline a inter-agency review of the "hack" used to break into the San Bernardino iPhone with Apple to share the "hack" with other government agencies. True The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that police must obtain a search warrant to access an individual's cellphone location information. The 5-4 decision imposes new limits on law enforcement's ability to get at the increasing amount of data that private companies amass in the modern technological age. True