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ENGINEERING ETHICS FROM ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

Case Study 1

Assignment 3 (5%) – MT Q1, Q2, Q3

PO8 Ethics (ESSE) – Apply professional ethics with islamic values and commit to responsibilities
and norms of professional engineering code of ethics
LO3 To demonstrate ethical principles in leadership, behavior and character with continuous
self-development
Questions:
As a recent graduate of Engineering of IIUM, you have been employed in the R & D
Engineering Division of MATEX, Inc. for the past several months. You were hired
because of the promising research you did with a product while you were a student at
Kulliyyah of Engineering. A meeting in your division is called by your supervisor,
Jonathan. He announced that your unit must make a recommendation within the next
two days on what product should be used by MATEX in processing a major product for
the company. The overwhelming consensus of the engineers in your unit based on their
many years of experience, is that product A is best for the job. But the research you
have conducted at IIUM before, provides preliminary evidence that product B might be
more reliable, more efficient, and considerably less costly. You have asked if the
recommendation can be delayed for another month to see if firmer evidence can be
found. Your recommendation is rejected due to the time constraints and Jonathan has
asked you to write a report to recommend product A to the higher management without
stopping you to do more research on product B. You have no desire to challenge your
colleagues. Besides you don't necessarily disagree with them about which product is
best. Still, you wish you had been given more time to work on product B, and you feel
uncomfortable about leaving the preliminary data out of the report.
Discuss the possible actions that you might take in-relation to ethics as an engineer.

“Whoever wants to know what Allah has prepared for him, Should look to what he has prepared for Allah”