Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · ECE · hard

During testing, an ECE finds that a hospital nurse-call system she designed fails intermittently. The project manager insists on turnover to meet the deadline, saying the problem 'rarely happens'. What is the most ethical course?

  1. Refuse to certify the system as complete, document the defect, and escalate until it is corrected because patient safety is at risk
  2. Turn over the system and fix it later if complaints arise
  3. Turn it over but remove her name from the documents
  4. Quietly disable the fault-logging feature

Answer

A. Refuse to certify the system as complete, document the defect, and escalate until it is corrected because patient safety is at risk

Solution

Patient safety is paramount. The engineer must not certify an unsafe system and should escalate through proper channels.

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