Responsibility in

Engineering
31S4201-Etika Keprofesian
OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Engineering standards
• The standard of Care
• Blame responsibility and Causation
• Liability
• Design Standard
• The Range of Standards of Practice
• The Problem of Many Hands
• Impediments to Responsible Action (Self-interest,
Self-deception, Fear, Ignorance, Egocentric
tendencies, Microscopic vision, Uncritical acceptance
of Authority, Groupthink)
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Introduction

• Responsibility has to do with accountability, both for what one does

in the present and future and for what one has done in the past
• The obligation-responsibilities of engineers require, not only
adhering to regulatory norms and standard practices of engineering
but also satisfying the standard of reasonable care
• Engineers can expect to be held accountable, if not legally liable, for
intentionally, negligently, and recklessly caused harms
• Responsible engineering practice requires good judgment, not simply
following algorithms
• A good test of engineering responsibility is the question, “what does
an engineer do when no one is looking?”
• Impediments to responsible practice include self-interest, fear, self-
deception, ignorance, egocentric tendencies, narrow vision, uncritical
acceptance of authority, and groupthink

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Article

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‘cont

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Sumber

Charles E. Harris, et al. 2009. Engineering Ethics

Concepts and Cases

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