Engineering ethics

Ethic
•A principle of right and good conduct.
•A system of accepted beliefs which control behavior, especially such a system based on morals.

Engineering ethics
•Also called practical ethics
•Emerging analytical consensus reached in medical ethics over the past thirty years, studies how individual engineers perceived, articulated, and resolved moral dilemmas that arose in practice.

first principle of engineering ethics that is “competency”
•Engineers are obligated to know as much as it’s reasonably possible about the technology of concern. Three areas of concern is knowledge of the joints, knowledge of the materials, and knowledge of data analysis.

second principle of engineering ethics that is “responsibility”

third principle of engineering ethics that is “Cicero’s Creed 2”
•This dictum implies that engineers should understand and characterized the risks associates with technology.