JULY 2021 CONFIDENTIAL

Universiti Kuala Lumpur

Malaysian Institute of Chemical and Bio-Engineering Technology
Subject Code/Name: CCB40602 Engineers in Society

Assignment 1 (Individual) Marks : 10%

Date (Week) : 17th September 2021 Due Date : 4th October 2021

Instructions:

1) Answer the following case study and support your answer with referring to any related Engineers
Act, Regulation or Code of Conduct;

Case Study 1
You are assigned to prospect an area for an oil reserves. However, in your course of works, you
discover no such oils but some other valuable oils reserves which your employer is (are) not
interested. On the other hand, the information you have is of great importance to the adjoining
interest. As an engineer can you release the particular information which you have to the other
party so that the oils reserves may be explored. Please discuss taking into consideration of the
BEM Regulations on Professional Conduct.

Case Study 2
You are an engineer and it is known that your project activities/plant production had cause an
adverse health, safety and/or environmental (HSE) impact. To improve the HSE quality, you have
to cease your project activities/production for a period, resulting in the inability to meet the schedule
and targets. How would you handle in a situation where there is a conflict between the BEM
Regulations on Professional Conduct and commercial consideration?

2) Identify ONE (1) ethical issue that happened around you or in UniKL MICET. Your selected issue
shall comprise of 4W 1H techniques. (What, When, Where, Why and How) and propose the
recommendation to overcome the said issue.

3) Your report in PDF format must be submitted via VLE e-learning latest by above submission
date. Marks deduction will be imposed for late submission.

CCB40602 ENGINEERS IN SOCIETY