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Ethical Perspective on Engineering Education
Published in Kaushik Kumar, Engineering Pedagogy Towards Outcome-Based Education, 2023
Engineering is a learned profession, and maintaining standards of honesty and integrity reflects dedication to the work. Engineering, as a system, impacts the quality of life of people (Kumar, 2015). People rely on engineers to provide them with safe and reliable goods and services. Their performance highlights a standard principle of ethical conduct (Kumar, 2015). The mistakes of unethical and incompetent engineers could cost many lives. Engineering ethics will be able to prevent such grave consequences and will help give meaning to the real efforts of engineers. The respect and reputation of the engineering profession requires them to be ethical and responsible. Engineers fulfilling their professional duties (National Society of Professional Engineers, 2019), should also be able toTake care of welfare of the public, which includes safety and health.Perform services in areas they are most competent.Issue statements for public in an objective and truthful manner.Be faithful agents for employers and clients to win trust.Avoid deceptive acts.
Social Psychology
Published in Demetris Yiannakides, Charalampos Sergiou, Human Factors in Aircraft Maintenance, 2019
Demetris Yiannakides, Charalampos Sergiou
Based on the above, it is evident that the sense of individual responsibility is weakened when distributed between the members of the group, as compared to the case of autonomous work. Therefore, the responsibility-sharing factor must be taken into account when applied in teams, which is now the norm in aircraft maintenance. In addition, the responsibility assumed by engineers as team members requires safety-enhancing behavior that should be characterized by compliance with procedures, cooperation between members and the readiness of each individual to report and justify his actions if needed. Personal integrity and respect are also among the core values that should characterize the behavior of engineers. It should be mentioned that personality is another important factor, which determines the level of perception of responsibility and shapes the attitude of the individual in the workplace (Robertson and Callinan 1998). To this end, personality traits that are typically shaped at a young age and which are related to various cultural issues should be considered in teamwork.
Beyond Traditional Engineering
Published in Diane P. Michelfelder, Neelke Doorn, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering, 2020
Engineering is the application of knowledge in the form of science, mathematics, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. According to various codes of ethics adopted by professional engineering societies, members of this profession, i.e. engineers, are expected to exhibit the highest standards of honesty and integrity, as the practice of engineering has a direct and vital impact on the quality of life for all people (see Chapter 43, “Professional Codes of Ethics” by Michael Davis, this volume). In fact, the first fundamental canon in the National Society of Professional Engineers (an umbrella professional engineering society) code of ethics requires that engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. It is the breadth of the word “public” which serves as the focus of the present work. How is “public” to be interpreted, that is, how expansive a view should be taken? Does “public” refer only to the members of society that are directly linked to the technology at the time that technology is developed? Or, when considering the health and welfare of the public, does the ethical code require a longer view in which the impact(s) of the technological advances upon the environment are also considered? And what of the parts of the world—the regions marked by poverty—that advancing technology rarely if ever touches at all? Does the engineer’s ethical code have any concern for the millions of species that inhabit the rest of our planet, or is it simply all about one species, our species—humankind?
Orchestrator for ensuring interdependency between safety and cybersecurity in railway control systems
Published in International Journal of Rail Transportation, 2023
Dionysia Varvarigou, David Espes, Giacomo Bersano
According to Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS) standard [1], safety is a subset of the reliability, maintainability, and availability properties. This specific standard uses all its properties for a systematic management process in railway. However, integrity is also considered in safety, with the Safety Integrity Level (SIL). This is because, integrity is one of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of safety. More specifically, safety has the ability to interact with the availability, maintainability, integrity, and reliability properties while considering in each one of them, the impact to humans and environment. It is an important property for railway sector, because the main asset for protection is the human life. For example, an essential component of a train breaks down, while the train is moving. This can have an impact on the people that it carries, the people in the surrounding, and the surrounding environment itself.
A 4-tier rubric for evaluating engineering students’ ethical decision-making (EDM) skills: EDM model as a tool for analysing and assessing ethical reasoning
Published in Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Mathana Amaris Fiona Sivaraman
Colby and Sullivan (2008) argued that central within the broader category of the engineer’s responsibility to contribute to human welfare are the overriding values of public safety and protection of the environment. Accordingly, core commitments of engineers as professionals include protection of public safety and the environment; integrity in negotiating multiple, often conflicting, loyalties; and other standards of honest and responsible practice (Colby and Sullivan 2008). These categories were taken into consideration when selecting ethical vignettes. This study looks into the students’ ability to identify ethical issues for varying problems. Hence, the researcher selected vignettes based on the categories outlined by Colby and Sullivan (2008), one on public safety and another on community welfare. The first ethical vignette is based on a laboratory test work, public safety and falsification of data. The second vignette is based on an engineer’s project for community engagement and people’s well-being. The level of difficulty for the second vignette is higher than the first, as it covers a broader aspect of community well-being. Other areas of importance were explored, by probing during interviews, based on the responses of the students.
A Systems Science Approach to Organizational Integrity. Case: Services Small and Medium Enterprises
Published in Cybernetics and Systems, 2022
Juan E. Núñez-Ríos, Jacqueline Y. Sánchez-García, Carlos López-Hernández, Manel Soto-Pérez, Pedro Pablo Cardoso-Castro
The green, red, and yellow (Figure 6) indicate the current state of the components of participating organizations. Figure 6 should be interpreted from the functions below:S1: Mostly marked yellow because, although the SMEs have identified essential operations, they are not configured to meet the requirements of their immediate contexts and overlap its actions. S1 requires structuring communication with other OUs and timely reports to dialogue with S3.S2: No coordination mechanisms supporting S1 were identified. Here, ethical policies can be shared to foster an organizational integrity framework.S3 - S3*: Although these exist in SMEs, their status is nonfunctional. It is necessary to increase agreements with S1. S3 should promote commitment to influence OI by constantly monitoring production parameters, audited by S3* without interfering with S1 management.S4: No element to contribute to adaptation was identified. Therefore, S1 tasks are detached from the overall context. Research must be implemented to facilitate the translation of exogenous. Lastly, S5: Is mainly exercised by SME owners or managers. Despite being present, it may not be functional, negatively affecting governance and the congruency of all functions within the ethos system. Multi-methodological techniques need to be integrated at this level to strengthen decision-making.