Question

D1.65 You are a development engineer that has recently left a position with a large corporation to work for a small embedded system company. Your team at the new company is working on a project tbat would be vastly improved through tbe use of a new procedure tbat was developed by your previous company. While you did not participate in the procedure's development, you are aware of all the technical details necessary to effectively employ it. Please answer and explain your response to each of the following questions: a) Would it ever be ethical to disclose the procedure to your team at the new company? b) Would it ever be good engineering practice to incorporate the procedure in your new team's embedded system? c) Assuming that you feel it could be ethical to disclose the procedure, what considerations or circumstances would influence your decision? d) Suppose that the considerations/circumstances in (c) above lead you to the conclusion that it would not be ethical to disclose tbe procedure. What changes to tbe considerations and circumstances would be necessary to permit you to ethically disclose the procedure to your new team?

Answer 1

1. No its unethical to disclose the procedure to your team at the new company as every company has some terms or clauses as safety measures and don’t like it to be disclosed.
2. No its not a good engineering practice to incorporate the procedure in your new team’s embedded system because firstly you have not built or worked on the procedure and incorporating somebodies work would be like stealing their ideas
3. My main consideration would be to first analyze the project they are working on. The flaws or the bugs in it and the areas in which the work could be explored or developed.
4. In that case the use of an alternate solution with identical results needs to developed such that there are no consequences