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Smith's dilemma is a situation that is presumably commonplace in the practice of professional engineering today. We find the corporation, ACME Property Holdings, striving to maximize their profit by eliminating the remedial action they take before selling a property. Although a report is made on the structural stability of the building, it is kept confidential and as such the public buyer of the building is not made aware of the structural state of the property. The engineer, Smith, investigating the building finds electrical deficiencies, and because they are not within his realm of expertise (electrical rather than civil) he does not include them in the report but does report them to ACME. In the interest of making the sale and maximizing their profit, ACME does not report these deficiencies to the buyer. This leaves Smith in a difficult situation; and the action he is required to take is alluded to within the Ontario Professional Engineering Act, Section 77, The Code of Ethics. This essay will outline the action he is required to take by invoking the following sections of the code: subsection (1)(i) and (ii) and subsection (2)(i). It will conclude with a specific list of the action(s) that Smith should take, to fulfil his obligations the public as a professional engineer while remaining within the confines of the Engineering Code of Ethics.
Subsections (1)(i) and (ii) of the Ontario Code of Ethics present what seems to conflicting requirements when applied to the situation at hand. They state: "It is the duty of the practitioner to the public, to the practitioner's employer, to the practitioner's clients, to the other members of the practitioner's profession, and to the practitioner to act at all times with, (i) fairness and loyalty to the practitioner's associates, employers, clients, subordinates and employees, (ii) fidelity to public needsÂ…[2]" The term fidelity is defined by Webster's Dictionary of Law [1] as: "Faithfulness to...
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