Understanding Ethics in Engineering Practice

“Engineering In Ethics”

Engineering ethics is a multi-disciplinary arena of morals and integrity and a classification of ethical ideologies which is applied to the performance and practice of engineering. The grounds inspect and scrutinise and lay down the commitment of the engineers towards the society and to their patrons and to the career as a whole. As an academician of this subject it is directly related to the subjects of the science of philosophy, the philosophy of engineering and also the ethics in technology.

During the 19th century engineering grew as a new subject and engineers saw their careers soar high whole working independently or working for large organisations. The United States of America laid the foundation for the American Society of Civil Engineers; American Society of Mechanical Engineers;

Engineering is a noble profession and it must uphold the ethics of the career. An engineer must cast-off anything that is life threatening and hazardous to the environment, health, well-being and other in entitlements of being a human. It is the duty of an engineer to see that his work is carried out efficiently and also being able to abide by law. Specifically he must safeguard and confirm the working standards of the workers employed under him to carry out the work at the ground level.

The simplest rudimentary problem of an engineer is that he is accountable to an authority to which it is at risk being miscommunicated to the client or to the employer. Though the engineer may be honest and diligent in his work but his corrupt and immediate authority puts the engineer’s license at stake and it overrides the ethics as laid down in the different societies of engineering. Thus whistle-blowing in the engineering profession isn’t a new concept or even for that reason unusual since it prevent s and stops an engineer to do the right thing in the right