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CH.16 Engineering Ethics

 Overview of the chapter:

 In this chapter, We learn about engineering ethics and other topics which are important
to engineers and engineering managers. The chapter is devoted to professional ethics
and conduct, which begins with some definitions and engineering codes of ethics.
Ethical problems that are faced by the engineer in industrial employment, consulting,
and contracting are presented.
 There are some basics key factors to manage the engineering career, which are as
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 Professional Ethics and Conduct:

 Our values are depends on our nature. In a nutshell, values exert influence over our
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attitudes, and attitudes influence our behavior. Values are essential to attitude
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formation and how we handle the situation and People. These values and belief do not
apply across the board in every situation, but they are at the heart of our culture.
 The major difference between personal ethics and professional ethics has to do with
the ethical standard of an organization or the engineering society. Most engineering
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professional societies have a code of ethics. Now a days, the engineering community
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become more global, it is important to recognize ethics in a global sense.

 Gluck distinguishes between morality and ethics as follows:
 Morality is concern with conduct and motive, right and wrong, and good and bad
character. Ethics is the philosophical study of morality; it is moral philosophy. When we
exercise moral philosophy—that is , when we practice the philosopher’s craft—we are
subjecting the questions of morality to other critical and analytical questions about
morality.
 Ethicists, after lifetimes of thought, are unable to agree on a simple definition of ethics.
Instead, their definitions fall into several categories:

Utilitarian Ethical egoism Deontological Rights—based Environment

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 There are also four categories of values are as follow:

Individual Values Professional Values Society Values Human Values

 Engineering Codes of Ethics:

 Oldenquist and Slowter have analysis current codes, and they identify 20 basic concept
that pervade them, divided into three groups:
(1) The Public Interest
(2) Truth, Honesty, Fairness
(3) Professional Performance
 Company Responses to Ethical Problems:
 Corporate managers are faced many ethical content problems on the behalf of the
company and individually. Company have numbers of responsibilities to a variety of

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stakeholders, and these responsibility may conflict with each other.

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 Summary: Making Ethical Decisions
 This details has shown that engineers, managers, and other professionals have many
occasions in which corporate, professional, and personal objectives and values may
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conflict. In some of these there will be real conflicts between positions where each have
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ethical justification. Questions such as the following can lead to a solution you can adopt
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with self-respect and live with:

• Does the action I am considering make good sense?
• Does this action fit my best concept of a dedicated professional engineer?
• Will my action unnecessarily harm others? Is there some way that I can compensate them?
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• Would my action stand up to close public scrutiny? Would I have difficulty explaining it to a
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reporter? To a judge and jury? To my colleagues? To my own family?

• Am I hiding behind a superior’s judgment or wish, or can I justify it based on my own values?
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 Following are case studies and it’s useful websites as below:

(1) https://ethics.tamu.edu/
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(2) http://www.onlineethics.org/Topics/ProfPractice/PPCases.aspx
(3) https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/ethics-resources/board-of-ethical-review-
cases#2011

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