This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- The engineer's first and foremost responsibility is to safeguard the public's health, safety, and welfare.

- This paramount duty overrides all other obligations, including loyalty to an employer, client demands, or project budgets.

- FE exam questions test this concept through situational scenarios involving conflicts of interest, pressure to compromise standards, and confidentiality dilemmas.

- A common exam trap involves choosing an answer that delegates or ignores your personal ethical responsibility; the correct action is to refuse to comply with unsafe directives and report them through proper channels.

- Use the mnemonic "Public over Paycheck" to quickly identify the correct course of action in complex ethics questions.

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