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Professionalism in the Workplace

• Engineering Technology Ethics

Review

Professionalism: Career planning Resume Interviewing Responsibilities Communication Professional Licensing New York State Laws Governing Professional Licensing

Engineering Ethics

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Professionalism and Codes of Ethics
• Chapter 3: Understanding Ethical Problems
• Chapter 4: Ethical Problem-Solving Techniques
• Chapter 5: Risk, Safety, and Accidents
• Chapter 6: The Rights and Responsibilities of Engineers
• Chapter 7: Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice
• Chapter 8: Doing the Right Thing

Ch 1. Introduction

Importance and Definitions

Personal Ethics Discussion

• Where does your ethical “structure” come from?

Business & Personal Ethics

• Business—Choices on an organizational level
• Personal—Choices on an individual level
• Is there overlap????
• Should there be overlap???

Use Problem Solving Process

Define problem

Come up w/ different alternatives

Evaluate the alternatives

Ch 2: Codes of Ethics

Codes of Ethics

• Express the rights, duties and obligations of the members of the profession (framework; not a recipe) Appendix A of your book: - IEEE - NSPE - ASME - ASCE - AIChE

Ch 3: Ethical Theories

Moral Theory Definition:

A moral theory defines terms in uniform ways and links ideas and problems together in consistent ways

1. Utilitarianism –Act and Rule
2. Cost-Benefit Analysis
3. Duty and Rights Ethics (^) Docsity.com 14

Modified Trolley Problem

• As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you - your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. Should you proceed?

Utilitarianism

• Actions are good if they serve to maximize human well-being
• Focus is on maximizing the well-being of society as a whole (even though individuals can be negatively impacted)
• Negatives:
  • No emphasis on individuals
  • Must know what leads to the ‘greater good” 17

"the good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or the one"

Benefit-Cost Analysis

• Do benefits outweigh the costs?
• Negatives
  • Not truly an ethical analysis tool
  • Not always easy to place a $ sign on all benefits
  • Who reaps the benefits?
  • Who pays the costs?

Duty and Right Ethics

• Actions are good when they respect the rights of individuals - List of duties that respect individuals - Individuals have fundamental rights that others have a duty to respect
• Negatives
  • How do you resolve individual versus group conflicts
  • Doesn’t account for overall good (^20)

"The good of the one outweighed the good of the many."