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ABSTRACT: Incident at Morales is a story of the company that wants to quickly build a chemical plant and to be successful in this competitive world. It also includes a variety of ethical issues where every company has to consider while building a new plant and making a new product. In this story, Phaust Chemical manufactures old stripper, a paint remover that dominates the market. They made a decision to construct a new plant to develop a competing product.
To design the new plant, Phaust recruits a chemical engineer, Fred Martinez, who had been a consultant to chemitoil. But, Phaust’s parent company in France, cuts budget 20% across the board. Chuck, the vice president for engineering at Phaust, pressurize Fred to cut down the construction costs. Due to that, many engineering decisions were confronted by Fred where ethical values are not considered.

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Incident at Morales provides a number of chances for viewers to consider the resolution of difficult ethical issues containing international responsibilities, consequences of technical and financial decisions, and environmental concerns. This story teaches us many ethical values of the engineer that to maintain company secrets. Maria, wife of Fred Martinez and EPA compliance officer discuss about company issues in her house. Fred confronts several engineering decisions like using expensive controls manufactured by Lutz and Lutz, purchasing pipes and connectors which is made of stainless steel or a high pressure alloy, whether we can control manually the whole process, if automatic process fails.
Code of ethics is one of most important thing everyone should have. As per the story, Code of ethics for an engineer is very important. He should not share his company secrets with anyone except his company colleagues. Ethical codes vary from individual to individual.
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