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Engineering Ethics: Electrical Engineering Department UMT

This document provides an overview of engineering ethics and concepts. It discusses types of ethics like common morality, personal morality, and professional ethics. It also covers preventive ethics and aspirational ethics. The document outlines attributes of engineering as a profession and the role of codes of ethics. It introduces four main ethical theories: utilitarianism, duty ethics, rights ethics, and virtue ethics. Case studies and examples are provided to illustrate how these theories can be applied to analyze ethical problems and dilemmas.

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Engineering Ethics: Electrical Engineering Department UMT

This document provides an overview of engineering ethics and concepts. It discusses types of ethics like common morality, personal morality, and professional ethics. It also covers preventive ethics and aspirational ethics. The document outlines attributes of engineering as a profession and the role of codes of ethics. It introduces four main ethical theories: utilitarianism, duty ethics, rights ethics, and virtue ethics. Case studies and examples are provided to illustrate how these theories can be applied to analyze ethical problems and dilemmas.

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Engineering Ethics

Electrical Engineering Department


UMT

1
 Material till slide 15 (previous one) taken
from Engineering Ethics by Charles B.
Fleddermann (Book 1)
 Material in the next slides taken from
Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases by
Charles E. Harris, Jr. et al (Book 2)

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Types of ethics or morality
 Common morality
 Personal morality
 Professional ethics

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Preventive ethics
 What is the meaning of preventive ethics?

4
Preventive ethics

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Aspirational ethics
 What are aspirational ethics?

6
Positive engineering
 What could be examples of positive
engineering?

7
Professionalism and Code of Ethics
 Chapter 2 of Book 1

8
Brief case study

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Code of ethics
 We can develop a framework for
understanding ethical problems
 One part of the framework is code of ethics
developed by professional engineering
organizations
 These can guide engineers and give them
insight into ethical problems

10
Engineering as a profession
 Attributes of a profession

11
Engineering as a profession
 Note the words judgement and discretion in
attribute 1 in previous slide

12
Engineering as a profession
 We will consider engineering as a profession

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Codes of ethics
 Codes express the rights, duties and
obligations of members of the profession

14
Codes of ethics
 Provide a framework for ethical judgement
for a professional
 Can only serve as starting point for ethical
decision making

15
Codes of ethics
 Is not a recipe for ethical behaviour
 Is never a substitute for sound judgement
 Is not a legal document
 You cannot be arrested for violating its
provisions, though expulsion from society may
result

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Codes of ethics
 There are objections to code as well
 Engineers not aware of codes
 Have never read it
 Do not consult it
 There can be internal conflicts in codes
 How?

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Understanding Ethical Problems
 Book 1, Chapter 3

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Case study

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Case study

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Understanding Ethical Problems
 In order to answer the question in the last
slide
 We need a framework for analysing ethical
problems
 What can be an example of such a framework?
 We also need to understand moral theories
 As a means for analysing ethical cases

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Ethical Thought
 How does ethical thought originate?

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Ethical theories
 What is a moral theory?
 It defines terms in uniform ways and links ideas
and problems together in consistent ways
 Same as scientific theories, which also organize
ideas, define terms, and facilitate problem
solving

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Four ethical theories
 Differ according to what is held to be the
most important moral concept
 Utilitarianism
 Duty ethics
 Rights ethics
 Virtue ethics

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Four ethical theories
 Utilitarianism
 Example of dam building

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Four ethical theories
 Utilitarianism
 WIPP example

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Four ethical theories
 Utilitarianism
 WIPP example

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Four ethical theories
 Utilitarianism
 WIPP example

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Four ethical theories
 Virtue ethics

29
Personal vs. corporate morality
 Virtue ethics

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Personal vs. corporate morality
 Virtue ethics

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Which theory to use

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Which theory to use

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Which theory to use

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