Many suppliers bid for your job but one has an especially low price. Ethical problems surface when you discover errors in the supplier's performance data and calculations. An engineer, you work for a consulting firm responsible for the renovation of old office buildings for a military base. A new regulation concerning wall materials goes into effect next year. The wall you are working on will not meet the new regulations.
Conflict arises when there are differing opinions regarding which regulations to follow.
An abandoned wood-treating facility must undergo a Superfund cleanup. The case history and other data are presented in order to provide insight into numerical and ethical problems in this situation. This analysis of the O-ring data argues for a launch scrub. Suitable for courses in applied statistics, material, and general engineering levels 1-4. Underbidding the Job A company underestimates the costs for detail design of a city's water supply system.