Question: Use your knowledge of IEEEACM Code of Ethics in Chapter 12 and Appendi

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Question: Use your knowledge of IEEEACM Code of Ethics in Chapter 12 and Appendix Cto Evaluate the "Case of Studies" given below. For each Case Study: Mention the relevant Principle(s (ex.Public) Related to each mentioned Principle, also mention the related clause(s) (ex. 1.01) Foreach mentioned clause, give reasons for choosing that specific clause(s) After doing all the above, provide solution to each case study. (Ex. In case study 1, Bob should think of. Solution should consist of 6 lines at least. Note that there can be morethan one relevant Principles and Clauses foreach study. Case Study 1: Marks) Bob is an experienced softwareengineer at arenowned software company. An analyst named Mr. John is working on a project for the defense department ofhis company, testing the software used in an airplane. Bob is the quality control manager for the software. Earlysimulation testing revealed that, under certain conditions, instabilities would arise causing plane to crash. The software was debugged and modified accordingly to fix the problems uncovered by the initial tests and hence, the software passed all thesimulation tests after the modifications. Despite the above testing and debugging, Bob is still not convinced that the software is safe. He iswomied that the software may have a design flaw that can only be fixed using extensive redesigning, Bobisalso convinced that the technique applied to fix the initial problems is not up to the mark and it did not actually address the underlying problem.

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Case Study 1

This case comes under following clauses and principles:

Bob should not step back from his opinion and should deal with pressure so as to follow the ethics and provide the good quality and design flawless product.Bob should encourage his supervisor that they should go for the extensive redesigning and if Bob is unable to encourage his supervisior to change his decsion then Bob should also approach the higher authorities in the company and report this incidence and convince them to take appropriate decision i.e. extensive redesigning in order to provide the software without any design flaw.

Case Study 2

This case comes under the clause 8.07 of the self principle.

Yes, the behavior of Ann is ethical according to the clause 8.07(Self) as she is not giving hospital any unfair treatment due to her shares in the Alpha Tech. She has compared all the proposal and according to her study and calculation she thinks that Alpha tech has provided the best proposal among all. She has taken the conclusuion by being unbiased and regardless of her share in Alpha Tech. So, she is not giving any unfair treatment becuase of any irrelevant prejudices.

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