Professional Ethics part-2
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PEM-II unit-II
Engineering Ethics
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Topics covered in this Unit
• Engineering Ethics
• Consensus & Controversy
• Models of Professional Roles
• Theories about Right Action
• Self-Interest
• Customs & religion
• Uses of Ethical Theories
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Read
• Textbook 1
• Ethics in Engineering
• Martin & Schinzinger
• Chapters 1 & 2
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Engineering Ethics (1)
• Study of Moral Issues & Decisions confronting Individuals & Organisations engaged in Engineering
• Study of related Questions about Moral Ideals, Character, Policies & Relationships of people and Corporations involved in Technological activity
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Engineering Ethics (2)
• Set of justified moral principles of Obligations, Rights & Ideals for people engaged in the field of engineering
• basis for finding correct solutions to problems arising while practicing the engineering profession
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Consensus & Controversies
• Personal Interests, Greed, Pressure or sheer Ignorance influence individuals’ opinion of right & wrong
• Controversies arise with conflicts of interests
• The opinion is deemed correct when everyone agrees with it
• Consensus
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Models of Professional Roles
• Saviour
• Guardian
• Bureaucratic Servant
• Social Servant
• Social Enabler & Catalyst
• Game Player
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Saviour
• To redeem society from Poverty, Inefficiency, Waste & hard manual labour
• Thru technological developments that lead to material prosperity
• Applying engineering ways of thinking to large scale social planning
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Guardian
• Knowledge & skills to create an ideal society
• expertise to decide in what is best for society
• To decide direction & pace of technology development
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Bureaucratic Servant
• Corporate management to decide direction & pace of technological development
• Engineer to carry out the directives of the management
• Loyal servant who has skills to achieve the goals
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Social Servant
• Obedient service to society
• Society expresses its interests either directly thru purchasing patterns
• Or indirectly, thru govt reps & consumer groups
• Coperate with management/govt to fulfil society’s desires
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Social Enabler & Catalyst
• Similar to social servant model
• Fulfil society’s desires, and also
• Help management & society – to understand their needs &– suggest means of fulfilling them by tech
development
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Game Player
• Neither servant nor master of anyone
• Play the game by extant rules
• Aim: succeed at the game
• Game: – development of technology– Resulting in advancement of society
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Theories about Right Action (1)
• Virtue Ethics – Virtues & Vices
• Utilitarian – most good for most people
• Duty Ethics – goodwill & respect to others
• Rights Ethics – human rights
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Self-Interest
• By nature, living things put their own interests, benefits & pleasures first, over and above others’
• Selfishness, egoism• Most vices are born fom this• Undesireable & unethical trait• Engineer’s duty: advancement of technology
for the benefits, comforts & better living standards of all human beings
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Customs & Religion
• Play a significant role in the way in which the society thinks & acts
• Often leads to narrow-mindedness and conflicts & controversies
• Engineer should rise above such things
• Think & act in the interests of all human beings
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Uses of Ethical Theories
• Resolving Moral Dilemmas
• Justifying Moral Obligations
• Relating Professional & Ordinary Morality
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End of unit-II
we will discussEngineer’s Responsibilities
in unit-III