MS 215 ENGINEERING ETHICS: ASSIGNMENT 03

1. What is the difference between code of conduct and code of ethics?

2. Choose a university ranked ‘y’ in the list of international universities on

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012 State any
three points which are common in UMT’s code of ethics and your chosen university. ( ‘y’ is sum
of last two digits of your roll number)

3. Search for the following incidences in newspapers of the last six months and describe briefly the
contents of the very news-report:
a. Honesty in making a decision
b. Dishonesty in an Engineering Project

4. What are the penalties of following crimes at different mentioned settings:

a. Plagiarism in any international university listed in
(http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012)
ranked ‘x’ (‘x’ is the sum of last three digits of your roll number)
b. Misrepresenting credentials in the USA government
c. Cartel in UK
d. Bribe in Pakistan’s judiciary
e. Cheating in a university ranked ‘z’ in the Table – A (‘z’ is the single last digit of your roll
number and if ‘z’=0 then ‘z’=10)
 TABLE A: TOP 10 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES

Rank Before 2012 University Name

Rank 2012

- 1 Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied

- 2
Sciences (PIEAS)

- 3 Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi

- 4 University of Agriculture, Faisalabad

- 5 University of the Punjab, Lahore

- 6 National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

- 7 Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University

- 8 University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore

- 9 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),

- 10
Lahore
Notes: The assignment should be MS Word typed, preferably soft-copy version,
and the contents’ font-size must not exceed 14. Submit it on the Moodle or send
it to the email address fahim.khanzada@umt.edu.pk keeping in mind the
following points:

 If submitting by email, the subject must be in the following format:

o COURSE WITH COURSE CODE- ASSIGNEMNT NUMBER -SECTION-NINE
DIGIT ROLL NUMBER
o For example a student having roll number 101111232 FROM section
‘F’ submitting his first assignment of ME322 Applied
Thermodynamics MUST have the email subject as follows:
 MS 215 ENGINEERING ETHICS-F- ASSIGNMENT 01-101111232
 The assignment must carry proper references.

 The assignment must include a cover page indicating

o Name of Student, Class, Section, Date and Roll Number.
 The assignment must be an MS Word file named in the following format:
o [First Name] [Roll No.] [Assignment No.] [Date]

For example a student named “Ahmed” having Roll no. “101234567”

submitting his first assignment on 25-December-2012 must have the
document file named as:
Ahmed-101234567-01-25122012

 PLAGIARISM will result in immediate failure 

Deadline: Friday, 25 January, 13:00

Assignment(s) not following the above-mentioned directions will NOT be

accepted and will result in a ZERO score.