Engineers derivative ethical responsibilities

In this case, under FEREl the engineers had a derivative ethical responsibility to situate their design work in a broad socio-technical-environmental system context, for example, the driver + engine + HAC -l- sensor + ECC + fuel injectors H- emissions control equipment -I- tailpipe -l- natural environment -I- humans living in that natural environment system. That was the broad system context within which the new chips were going to function and within which they could (and did) have noteworthy harmful effects. 

What must be the case about the process of transferring a technological product or system from one country to another for that transfer process to qualify as an ethically responsible one Among other things, the process must be one in which the engineers and managers involved fulfill the following FERE-derived ethical responsibilities ... 

For more detailed discussion of the conditions under which an engineer has a derivative ethical responsibility to go public or blow the whistle, see Case 11. 

The structural engineer who is the principal of the firm has a derivative ethical responsibility to monitor and supervise her/his subordinate employees in a substantive way. The head structural engineer must not turn over responsibility for a particular project to a subordinate structural engineer and then cease to monitor, supervise, and check her/his work. In particular, the head structural engineer cannot ethically allow her/his personal seal of approval to be used by the subordinate without checking on the accuracy and reliability of the work that s/he has done on a project. 

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