A senior licensed professional engineer was hired by a municipality to be an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the municipality against a local engineering Arm for flaws in their structural design of the newly opened city hall. During the course of Investigating the facts, the senior engineer discovers a serious structural design flaw that could be dangerous to the public if corrective action is not token immediately. The two parties decide to settle out of court, and as port of the settlement, the parties enter into a confidentiality agreement and the engineering firm rectifies oil structural flows to the municipality's satisfaction. The municipality that hired the senior engineer requests that the senior engineer keep aII facts learned during the investigation confidential.
TO whom does the engineer owe a duty and what. If any, action should the engineer take?
Which of the following roles or responsibilities do regulators of professions play in society?
After promoting their lift station design services to prospective clients, a new engineering Arm was hired by a local municipality to design and build a highly technical control system. ~me system required specialized electrical wiring and sot up, along with detailed programming.
The licensed professionals at the firm had newer dealt with such a complicated control system or set-up, but not wanting to lose their new client, proceeded with the design and set up without competent knowledge. Delays on the project occurred due to the lack of satisfactory drawings and programming code. When the system was delivered and set up onsite. It failed to work properly despite various time-consuming adjustments. These delays led the firm to Dill the client for cost over-runs. In retrospect, what should the firm have done?
TESTED 21 Nov 2024
