Question

Assignment: This is an individual assignment. For this assignment you will research online an instance of when an engineer violated a law or regulation and was prosecuted in criminal court (not civil court) or plead guilty to a criminal charge. Please provide references. In the written assignment, please include a brief summary of the event and answer the following questions: Charged! • What is the engineer being charged with? • What the engineer did or did not do properly in order to be charged? • What do these charges mean? • What is the penalty faced by the engineer? • What was the final result of the case (if it has been completed)? The assignment should be a maximum of three (3) pages in length not including the reference page, written in 12pt. font, with maximum line spacing of 1.5.

Answer 1

We have taken up a case in which an engineer is charged with the design flaw charges and building was collapsed several people died many casualties.

If a building is collapsed due to the earthquake or any other natural calamity and then it is checked further that if the engineer had used appropriate codal provisions or not if not then it is a case of design flaw and if building collapsed due to faulty design of the engineer only then it comes under homecide charges.

So the flawed design of the engineer can turned him into a criminal. Because these type of cases are heared at criminal courts and most of the times engineers found to be guilty.

These charges mean that not mistakenly but for the sake of profit design was flawed and using low quality material for cost cutting engineer led to the detrimental collapse which surely put him behind the bars as comes under offense by the law.

Penalty faced by the engineer could be an amount which is given to the court for the victims or senteced to jail for several years time to lifetime or both based upon the severity of the issue and he/she can't practice his engineering applications further.

Final result of the case that engineer sentenced to jail for 5 years for homecide charges for flawed design and building collapsed Also he need to pay a huge amount to victims And the license of engineer was cancelled with immediate effect.

References: Engineers and white collar crimes journal, New yorker magazine article