Iem Regulation on Professional Conduct

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Question 1 As a young engineer, you are instructed by your employer to prepare a bankable report for a prospective project based on the information provided by your employer. You have no access to ascertain the reliability of the information provided. In light of the IEM Regulations on Professional Conduct, how do you advise your employer so that you may complete your assignment with integrity? Answer: Engineering is a challenging profession compared to other professional profession. A challenge an engineer normally faced in his or her routine include instructed by their employee to prepare a bankable report but with no access to ascertain the reliability of the information provided. It is possible that the information’s provided is the only info that the Employer had obtained also. As a practicing engineer, in the event where our professional advice is not accepted, we shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the person overruling or neglecting our advice is aware of the danger and consequences in which we believe will result from such overruling and neglect as stated in the Regulations of Professional Conduct. In light of the IEM Regulation on Professional Conduct, and if a such event where the information provided by the employer is believed to be vague and the reliability of the information is questionable, as a young engineer, one should first of all approach the employer or his immediate supervisor explaining one’s doubt and also to request for proof that the information is sufficiently backed. If one’s employer has similar doubt about the information that he was provided, then the employer, by virtue of professionalism shall approach his client to clarify the vagueness and request for more information/ proof that the information is indeed correct and bankable. it is necessary for him to inform his employer in writing of any conflict
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