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Importance of Ethics in Engineering Profession

Engineering ethics is important for engineers to uphold as it establishes their obligations to society, clients, and the profession. Engineers must hold paramount public safety, health and welfare in their work. They are also responsible for maintaining integrity, objectivity, competence, confidentiality, and professional behavior. Understanding ethics helps engineers push back against unethical decisions, ensure the safe development of technologies like AI, and consider social and environmental impacts. Typical ethics issues involve safety, risk, compliance, impacts and more.

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Importance of Ethics in Engineering Profession

Engineering ethics is important for engineers to uphold as it establishes their obligations to society, clients, and the profession. Engineers must hold paramount public safety, health and welfare in their work. They are also responsible for maintaining integrity, objectivity, competence, confidentiality, and professional behavior. Understanding ethics helps engineers push back against unethical decisions, ensure the safe development of technologies like AI, and consider social and environmental impacts. Typical ethics issues involve safety, risk, compliance, impacts and more.

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Importance of Ethics in
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• Ethics is an important topic for engineers of


every level and field. When you become a
professional engineer, however, you are
held to a higher standard. That is why one
of the requirements for maintaining your
professional engineers’ license is to meet a
certain number of professional development
hours with at least two being in ethics.

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• Engineers have an ethical responsibility to the public,


the profession, and the world at large. Engineers’ work
shapes our urban environment and, in turn, the way
people see, interact with, and operate the world around
them.
• Engineering ethics is the field of system of moral
principles that apply to the practice of engineering. The
field examines and sets the obligations by engineers to
society, to their clients, and to the profession

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• Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of


the public.
• Perform services only in areas of their
competence.
• Issue public statements only in an objective and
truthful manner.
• Act for each employer or client as faithful agents
or trustees.
• Avoid deceptive acts.
• Conduct themselves honorably, responsibly,
ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor,
reputation, and usefulness of the profession

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• Integrity.
• Objectivity.
• Professional Competence and Due Care.
• Confidentiality.
• Professional Behavior.

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• Engineering Projects Can Have A Direct Impact On People’s


Safety
All engineers know this, and should strive to do their best work,
ensuring nothing but the highest standards. An appreciation for ethics
would reinforce this, as not only is doing good work a matter of
professionalism, in the content of engineering it’s also a matter of
morality.
• It Gives Them Ability To Push Back Against Bad Decisions
We’re bombarded with news stories about how companies seem to flout
ethical considerations relating to privacy, propriety, or even safety.
Ethics are often dropped in the face of increased profits, and this
decision always comes from those at the top, not the engineers who
actually work on the projects. Facebook, Google, Volkswagen, and
others companies have come under fire for acting unethically

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• Ethics Have To Be Explained to AI Systems


We’ve all seen movies and read books about artificial intelligence
systems rising up and turning against humanity. While the experts
don’t think that will happen, there is a very real possibility that AI
will have a negative impact on certain groups, not due to malice, but
inherent biases encoded into the system by humans. This kind of
oversight can and will cause harm if not addressed. Engineers who
have an ethical framework will already have a solid foundation from
which to fix this problem

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• Cultivating Ethical Awareness


• Developing Ethical Decision-Making
• Promoting Professional Responsibility
• Fostering Ethical Leadership
• Integrating Social and Environmental Considerations
• Communication Skills
• Promoting Ethical Responsibility in Professional
Collaboration

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• Safety
• Acceptable risk
• Compliance
• Confidentiality
• Environmental health
• Data integrity
• Conflict of interest
• Honesty/Dishonesty
• Societal impact
• Fairness
• Accounting for uncertainty, etc.
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• Engineering ethics is the field of applied ethics


and system of moral principles that apply to the
practice of engineering. The field examines and
sets the obligations by engineers to society, to
their clients, and to the profession.
• The engineering code of ethics refers to a basic
set of principles that establishes a standard of
conduct for engineers in their duties. The code
of ethics ensures that engineers preserve society
in all their endeavors.

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