GE6075-PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING

OBJECTIVES To enable the students to create an awareness on Engineering Ethics and Human Values, to instill Moral and Social Values and Loyalty and to appreciate the rights of others.

Why study ethics? When students enter the professional world, they will be expected to follow an explicit or implicit ethical code. To responsibly confront moral issues raised by technological activity How to deal with ethical dilemmas in their professional lives? To achieve moral autonomy

What Is Ethics? Josephson Institute of Ethics Ethics refers to standards of conduct . . . that indicate how one should behave based on . . .principles of right and wrong. As a practical matter, ethics is about how we meet the challenge of doing the right thing

Unit-1 HUMAN VALUES To understand the moral values that caught to guide the Engineering profession. Resolve the moral issues in the profession. Justify the moral judgment concerning the profession. It is intended to develop a set of beliefs, attitudes, and habits that engineers should display concerning morality

UNIT II - ENGINEERING ETHICS Engineering Ethics is the activity and discipline aimed at (a) understanding the moral values that ought to guide engineering profession or practice, (b) resolving moral issues in engineering, and (c) justifying the moral judgments in engineering. It deals with set of moral problems and issues Engineering ethics is defined by the codes and standards of conduct endorsed by engineering (professional) societies with respect to the particular set of beliefs, attitudes and habits displayed by the individual or group.

UNIT III - ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION Before manufacturing a product or providing a project, we make several assumptions and trials, design and redesign and test several times till the product is observed to be functioning satisfactorily. We try different materials and experiments. From the test data obtained we make detailed design and retests. Besides the tests, each engineering project is modified during execution, based on the periodical feedback on the progress and the lessons from other sources. Hence, the development of a product or a project as a whole may be considered as an experiment.

UNIT IV - SAFETY, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS This Unit discusses the professional responsibility of engineers (indeed, of all professionals) to assist the general public to obtain information about risks associated with specific technological artifacts and systems that may be relevant to the public's health and welfare.

UNIT V - GLOBAL ISSUES Globalization means integration of countries through commerce, transfer of technology, and exchange of information and culture. In a way, it includes acting together and interacting economies through trade, investment, loan, development schemes and capital across countries. For the engineers, the issues such as multinational organizations, computer, internet functions, military development and environmental ethics have assumed greater importance for their very sustenance and progress.

Measure of Success The measure of success is how much new we learn and if we can notice any change in the attitudes (sensitivity) to the problems of professional ethics.