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Appendix E: Ethics in Engineering as a Prerequisite for Technological Development of Societies--Mehdi Bahadori and Mahmood Yaghoubi
Appendix E: Ethics in Engineering as a Prerequisite for Technological Development of Societies--Mehdi Bahadori and Mahmood Yaghoubi
Pages 117-124
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H aving a strong sense of engineering ethics and morality, they can control their own activities, thus safeguarding the interests of societies and ensuring the health of the environment. Imbued with a sense of human values and engineering ethics, one can ensure peace of mind and inner satisfaction, ultimately creating a greater amount of personal happiness, the final goal of all human endeavors.
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5. In my engineering activities I shall economize in using water, energy, money, materials, equipment, time, and other national resources, and I shall have a keen sensitivity toward their use and avoid undue wastage.
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Are engineers supposed to enhance material progress for the sole purpose of enjoying more sensual pleasures? Should science, technology, and innovation, with their breathless speed that has enabled them to utilize everything, be allowed to mercilessly follow their own present path without paying due regard to wisdom, virtue, morality, and human values?
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Ethics Bearing in mind the many different engineering activities, the advanced industrial societies, especially the United States, have resolved to pay more attention to ethics in science in general and engineering in particular. By observing these ethical precepts, engineers may control their own activities more effectively.
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For an efficient execution of our engineering responsibilities, we stand in need of certain principles that we call engineering ethics. From the ethical point of view, engineers must possess the following: technical ethics that concern technical and scientific decisions; professional ethics that relate to dealings with other engineers, managers, workers, and support staff; and social morality that pertains to patriotic and humanitarian commitments.
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It is the priceless possession of these sublime values that can ensure not only material welfare and prosperity but, more important, can contribute to greater inner satisfaction and sustainable happiness. SCIENCE, INNOVATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION The twenty-first century is an era of rapid changes and transformations.
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The main subjects might include the following: • history of engineering in the world, • history of scientific and industrial revolutions in the world, • working relations and industrial laws, • economic and production relations, • standards of design and productivity, • professional ethics, • human values and ethical engineering, • environmental protection and sustainable development,
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Students trained not only in engineering subjects but also in ethics can lead the way to developing a profession that responds to societal interests in a rapidly changing world.
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