Ethics
Ethics
Ethics
Faculty of Engineering
University Malaysia Sarawak
Part 1
Discuss the Malaysian Code of Conduct for Engineers in Malaysia with respect to
how engineers can uphold the standard of professionalism in the country.
Engineers play a very vital role on the quality of life and the development of the
nation for all people as the outputs produced by them interest the members of society at
large. Thus, it is one of the important and learned professions as the engineers and as
professionals is expected to exhibit and manifest clearly the highest standard of honesty
and integrity. In other words, they need to perform their duties in as conscientious a
manner as possible in sustaining the society as well as the environment. Accordingly,
services and duties provided by engineers require honesty, fairness, equity, impartially and
must be dedicated to the protection of the public health, safety and welfare. By obtaining
the highest level of engineering level is meaningless without upholding the standard of
professionalism and the practices of ethics and morale in the profession as an engineer as
professional ethics is one of the most important concerns in the current world. As an
engineer, the individual should be able to avoid misconducts such as conflicts of interests
and negligence.
However, there are some related products which expose the engineers with the
possibility of bribery and unethical practices and behaviour. For an example, a big amount
of money incurred while dealing with the procurement of engineering. Failure on this
engineering ethics leads to many legal consequences despite the failure in the engineering
products alone. In our own country, there are various types of cases related to the unethical
engineering practices. One of the famous examples is the tragedy of the collapse of a tower
block in the Highland Towers development in Ampang, Selangor which is located just
outside of the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur leading to loss of life and the loss of use
of the blocks that remained standing. This failure leads to bad and negative perceptions by
the members of the public that the engineers are less honest, less trustworthy and more
materialistic thus become prone to bribery. In this case, engineers have the most
responsibilities and duties to secure the safety, health and welfare of the public in the
performance of their professional career as an engineer.
Part 2
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