A significant situation where you were at the horns of ethical dilemma

Tell us about a significant situation where you were at the horns of ethical dilemma. Describe the situation, the outcomes and how it molded you into the person you are today.

project report issues

The dilemma started when we were asked to submit our final year project report-my project supervisor had told me that "without result", I can't submit my project report. I was working on the "Design of Electrocardiogram Circuit and Automatic Analysis of ECG Signals", the software part, which handles the analysis was 90% done but the hardware part, which is the ECG circuit was not giving the desired output signal. 24 hours to submit, I worked tirelessly to make the circuit work but all effort proved futile.

As the time of submission draws nigh, I was faced with the decision to take a picture of me using the circuit with manipulated output signal showing on the oscilloscope to belie that the circuit worked or continue testing the circuit. Certainly, the former will accomplish the mission but it would ruin my self-integrity thus, I decided to continue troubleshooting until I found the "odd pattern" in the circuit just an hour to submit. Deftly, I made the necessary correction, recorded the result, also had to take the prototype to my supervisor's office to validate. Immediately, I added the result, pictures, analysis and wrote final conclusion to my project report. Before submitting, I had my supervisor cross-check the report, fortunately, he was satisfied with the software, hardware prototype and the project report.

I was tested, I remained loyal to myself not to jeopardize my self-integrity and that of my alma-mater. A great artist said, "if we give our brain as much attention we give to our hair, there is nothing impossible we can't achieve", the dilemma taught me to trust my instinct and always do what is right, no matter the outcome. My project defense was amazing and was given a standing ovation from my colleagues as well as lecturers in the room.

Tosin, an ethical dilemma is a situation wherein there is an option for you to violate an existing rule in order to accomplish or achieve an end result. For example, there is an ethical dilemma existing when you see a fellow student break into the school server in order to get an advanced copy of exams. If the school has an honor code, then you are expected to report such instances to authorities. The ethical dilemma is whether you should honor the code and not report the student who will most likely be expelled or, if you will just keep quiet and allow him to use his stolen exam questions to pass the test. Which would be an ethical violation of the honor code. There has to be a question of integrity on your part. While you do use the term self integrity in order to describe your situation. There was no real ethical dilemma present. You would not be violating any rules if you had chosen to use a picture instead of actually completing the circuit for the project. Do you see what I am driving at here? An ethical dilemma needs to satisfy a specific set of parameters which your current essay does not address.