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Professional Ethics
Professional Ethics
1 What is Professional
Ethics?
Introduction:
‘‘WHY SHOULD I STUDY ETHICS? I am an ethical person.’’
Engineers and engineering students often ask this question when the
subject of professional ethics is raised, and the short and simple
answer to it is not long in coming:
‘‘You are not being asked to study ethics in general, but your
profession’s ethics.’’
Entering into a profession as an ethical person does not mean that one
is well prepared for the ethical challenges that may lie ahead.
Professional life presents distinctive problems of its own.
What is a Profession?
The use of "profess" and related terms in the Middle Ages was
associated with a monk's public "profession" of a way of life that
carried with it stringent moral requirements.
Engineering is a Profession
Davis’ definition allows engineering full professional status.