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Study the below case and answer the followingquestions:

Rania is an Electrical Quality Assurance Engineer at a largeelectrical company. she is responsible for the final testing of hercompany’s transformers and she is part of a team which decides whennew the products will be shipped to distributors for sale.

Rania’s company has a contract with another company whichproduces wires inside the transformers Rania’s company make. Thetransformers need to be shipped for the costumer by the end of themonth, meaning Rania has a limited timeframe to conduct her QualityControl test for the wires.

Due to such a short notice, the Quality and Assurance departmentcannot perform all the tests required on the wires to ensure theyare defect free. Rania suspects that there is malfunction in someof the wires and cannot send her confirmation test until sheassures that all issues have been fixed or replaced. However, ifshe doesn't, her company's competitor will take the contract.

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a. Would it be ethical for Rania to send her confirmationtest under these circumstances?

(I) It is not ethical for Rania, to sendher confirmation test s as it jeopardizes the publicsafety.

(II) It is ethical for Rania, to send herconfirmation test

b. Refer to the NSPE Code of Ethics forEngineers to explain which ethical code does Rania willconsider to justify her action?

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After reading this passage it is clearly not ethical for Rania to send her confirmation test under this circumstances As the transformer is a Very basic device which is commonly used in the public areas and any issue with the quality of the Transformer will cause Many    See Answer
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