Engineering Ethics Response about the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal

Introduction: Compose an introduction that provides background information on the case, the ethical concepts that apply to your case, one engineering code of ethics, your argument about whether you believe the stakeholders in the case acted morally, and the evidence used to support your argument. This is where you present your argument or thesis statement.

Formulate the argument supporting your thesis: Take a position on this issue and present it as a thesis. Present at least three premises to support your argument plus the material that supports or explains them. Be sure to use material outside research.

Formulate a refuting argument or assessment of objections: Consider any objections or doubts that someone might make regarding your thesis. Convince the reader that the objections are unfounded and not credible.

Conclusion: Provide a summary of your argument, emphasize its importance, explain how engineers can avoid this situation from happening again in the future

A simple random sample of 10 pages from a dictionary is obtained. The numbers of words defined on those pages are​ found, with the results n=10​, x=57.8 ​words, s=16.4 words. Given that this dictionary has 1463 pages with defined​ words, the claim that there are more than​ 70,000 defined words is equivalent to the claim that the mean number of words per page is greater than 47.8 words. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the mean number of words per page is greater than 47.8 words. What does the result suggest about the claim that there are more than​ 70,000 defined​ words? Identify the null and alternative​ hypotheses, test​ statistic, P-value, and state the final conclusion that addresses the original claim. Assume that the population is normally distributed. Determine the test statistic. State the final conclusion that addresses the original claim.

Now we will analyze the truck and load as two individual objects that interact with each other as they accelerateleft:2)We’ll start with analyzing the load.a.You discuss what forces are acting on the load with some fellow students. Everyone agrees that the Earth exerts a downward force on the load, but there is some disagreement about any other forces acting on the load. Use⃑as the force which the truck exerts on the load. The vertical component of ⃑is often given a specific name. If the load is simply resting in the bed of the truck (not tied down or in contact with the gate at the back of the bed), then the horizontal component of ⃑is also given a specific name. What are these names, and which way do the two components point (up or down; and left or right? Below, you can refer to the components of ⃑with the names you noted here if you would like to do so.

b. Draw a free body diagram for the load (using the same coordinate system that you used above).

c. Use Newton’s first two laws to determine the vertical and horizontal components of ⃑in terms of F drive, MT, mL, and g. (If one is zero, explicitly state that it is. Refer back to some of your conclusions from Question 1 about the acceleration of the load.)

Vertical Horizontal

GoGreen wants to import bioethanol from Brazil for blending. Its likely
terms of purchase would be CIFLisbon. Using the information covered in
this chapter, complete the following activities:
Explain what CIF Lisbon means.
2. Describe the risks, responsibilities and obligations of the supplier under the
terms CIF Lisbon.
3. Describe the risks, responsibilities and obligations of GoGreen under the
terms CIF Lisbon.
4. Study the Incoterms and state whether there is a more beneficial term of
trade for GoGreen’s importing activities. Explain your reasoning.

A statistics instructor wonders whether significant differences exist in her students’ final exam scores in her three different sections. She randomly selects the scores from 10 students in each section. A portion of the data is shown in the accompanying table. Assume exam scores are normally distributed.

Construct an ANOVA table. (Round "Sum Sq" and "Mean Sq" to 1 decimal place, "F value" to 3, and "p-value" to 3 decimal places. Before fitting your model, type options(scipen=10) and options(digits=10) into your R console.)

The management of a jewelry store plans to buy gold in the future and seeks protection against an increase in the price of gold. The current price of gold is $352.40 per ounce. The futures price of gold is $397.80 per ounce. The number of ounces to be hedged is 1,000, and the number of ounces per futures contract is 100. Therefore, 10 contracts will be hedged.

Describe in detail the hedge created by the jewelry store. That is what actions would be taken and why?

Based on the information given in the question, describe the outcome in detail of this hedge if the price of gold is $304.20 per ounce and the price of the futures contract is $349.60 per ounce when the hedge is lifted.

Based on the information given in the question (not your answer above, but the original information), describe the outcome in detail of this hedge if the price of gold is $392.50 per ounce and the price of the futures contract is $437.90 per ounce when the hedge is lifted.

Your task is to determine the WACC for a given firm using what you know about WACC as well as data you can find through research. Your deliverable is a brief report in which you state your determination of WACC, describe and justify how you determined the number, and provide relevant information as to the sources of your data. Select a publicly traded company that has debt or bonds and common stock to calculate the current WACC. One good source for financial data for companies as well as data about their equity is Yahoo! Finance. By looking around this site, you should be able to find the market capitalization (E) as well as the β for any publicly traded company. There are not many places left where data about corporate bonds is still available. One of them is the Finra Bonds website. To find data for a particular company’s bonds, find the Quick Search feature, then be sure to specify corporate bonds and type in the name of the issuing company. This should give you a list of all of the company’s outstanding bond issues. Clicking on the symbol for a given bond issue will lead you to the current amount outstanding and the yield to maturity. You are interested in both. The total of all bonds outstanding is D in the above formula. If you like, you can use the YTM on a bond issue that is not callable as the pre-tax cost of debt for the company. Assumptions: As you recall, the formula for WACC is: rWACC = (E/E+D) rE + D/(E+D) rD (1-TC) The formula for the required return on a given equity investment is: ri= rf + βi * (RMkt-rf) RMkt-rf is the Market Risk Premium. For this project, you may assume the Market Risk Premium is 5% unless you can develop a better number. rf is the risk free rate. The risk free rate is normally the yield on US Treasury securities such as a 10-year treasury. For this assignment, please use 3.5%. You may assume a corporate tax rate of 40%. Use the company Johnson and Johnson

Using Purdue's University College of Agriculture as an example, discuss how you think this technology could help U. S. farmers. For example, how can this technology help farmers in your area or state who use underground aquifers to water their crops more efficiently?

My state is Georgia

1. Suppose an investor observes a downward term structure of interest rate.  
   1. According to the expectation hypothesis, what will be the investor’s forecast about future change of interest rate (increase, decrease or unchanged)? Explain your argument. (10 marks).