You have worked for a petroleum company producing automotive fuels for several years, and in your spare time at home you have developed a new fuel composition that has a higher heating value than ordinary gasoline. When you began work at this company, you signed a confidentiality agreement that gave them all of your intellectual property. What are your obligations to your employer?

a. It is your work on your time, so you have no obligations to your current employer.

b. Everything you used to develop your new fuel you learned on the job at your company, so your work really belongs to them.

c. Your company’s confidentially agreement requires you to provide them with all your work.

d. Give your idea to a friend and let him or her pursue it while keeping you as a silent partner. Give your solution in Engineering Ethics Matrix form.