Engineering Ethics

Requirements arising from a person’s situation or circumstances

• Obligations

• Calculations

• Ethics

• Code of Ethics

The illegal copying, distribution or use of software

• Software Piracy

• Calculations

• Ethical Dilemma

• Code of Ethics

When a person raises a concern about wrongdoing occurring in an organization or body of people.

• Software Piracy

• Whistle blowing

• Ethical Dilemma

• Code of Ethics

Standards, rules or guidelines for socially approved conduct

• Ethics

• Obligations

• Complimentary Courtesy

• NIEE

Engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the PUBLIC in the performance of their professional duties

• True

• False

Which of the following may happen if an engineer does not act ethically?

• Engineers may be held personally and legally responsible for their professional actions.

• Engineers will be praised for making choices that benefit themselves at the cost of the public safety

• Engineer will be sent to another country.

• Engineer will get to work from home so they will not talk to the other engineers.

NSPE was initially created by the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE)

• True

• False

Engineers should follow their professional ethics code because

• It provides a clear definition of what the public has a right to expect from responsible engineers

• It helps them avoid legal problems, such as getting sued

• It raises the image of the profession and, hence, gets engineers more pay

• The public will trust engineers more once they know engineers have an ethics code

A person’s behavior is always ethical when he or she...

• Does what is best for everyone

• Does what is best for oneself

• Does what is most profitable

• Has good intentions no matter how things turn out

The first and foremost obligation of registered professional engineers is to...

• The public welfare

• Their employer

• The government

• The engineering profession