Management pressure is not an excuse for faulty engineering. As an engineer, your first duty is to the public, then your client, then your employer. That's stra

Management pressure is not an excuse for faulty engineering. As an engineer, your first duty is to the public, then your client, then your employer. That's straight out of the engineering ethics handbook. Your boss comes third. When you sign-off on a design, it is your approval. Your name goes on the document. There's no passing that off as someone else's fault. If you are unable or unwilling to say "no" to your employer, then you do not meet the criteria to be a professional engineer. Your employer may find another engineer to sign-off, but perhaps that person will think on it carefully, knowing that someone else refused. If something later went wrong, it could not be passed off as a simple oversight.