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This 3-credit course examines values and ethics in professional engineering. It discusses the effects of technological growth, environmental issues, and appropriate technology movements. It also addresses the human role in engineering projects and industries. The course covers ethics in engineering practice, including conflicts between business and ideals. It examines professional codes of ethics and whistleblowing. Additionally, it explores values in contemporary society and the constitution, including psychological, societal, aesthetic, moral, and ethical values. Recommended books for the course include works about controlling technology ethics, ethical issues in engineering, and human values in the engineering profession.

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Values & Ethics in Profession PDF

This 3-credit course examines values and ethics in professional engineering. It discusses the effects of technological growth, environmental issues, and appropriate technology movements. It also addresses the human role in engineering projects and industries. The course covers ethics in engineering practice, including conflicts between business and ideals. It examines professional codes of ethics and whistleblowing. Additionally, it explores values in contemporary society and the constitution, including psychological, societal, aesthetic, moral, and ethical values. Recommended books for the course include works about controlling technology ethics, ethical issues in engineering, and human values in the engineering profession.

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VALUES & ETHICS IN PROFESSION


HU-301
Contracts:3L
Credits- 3

Science, Technology and Engineering as knowledge and as Social and Professional Activities

Effects of Technological Growth:


Rapid Technological growth and depletion of resources, Reports of the Club of Rome. Limits of
growth: sustainable development
Energy Crisis: Renewable Energy Resources
Environmental degradation and pollution. Eco-friendly Technologies. Environmental Regulations,
Environmental Ethics
Appropriate Technology Movement of Schumacher; later developments
Technology and developing notions. Problems of Technology transfer, Technology assessment
impact analysis.
Human Operator in Engineering projects and industries. Problems of man, machine, interaction,
Impact of assembly line and automation. Human centered Technology.

Ethics of Profession:
Engineering profession: Ethical issues in Engineering practice, Conflicts between business demands
and professional ideals. Social and ethical responsibilities of Technologists. Codes of professional
ethics. Whistle blowing and beyond, Case studies.

Profession and Human Values:


Values Crisis in contemporary society
Nature of values: Value Spectrum of a good life
Psychological values: Integrated personality; mental health
Societal values: The modern search for a good society, justice, democracy, secularism, rule of law,
values in Indian Constitution.
Aesthetic values: Perception and enjoyment of beauty, simplicity, clarity
Moral and ethical values: Nature of moral judgements; canons of ethics; ethics of virtue; ethics of
duty; ethics of responsibility.

Books:
1. Stephen H Unger, Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineers, John Wiley &
Sons, New York 1994 (2nd Ed)
2. Deborah Johnson, Ethical Issues in Engineering, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1991.
3. A N Tripathi, Human values in the Engineering Profession, Monograph published by IIM, Calcutta
1996.

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