Engineers can Urge Govt. to expand services of the Army Corps of Engineers Encourage students to focus their projects on service for disadvantaged groups Encouraging corporations to cut their fee by 5 to 10% for charitable purposes. Morally concerned Engineering Profession- – Should recognize the rights of corporations and engineers to voluntarily engage…
Should engineering professionals offer engineering services to the needy, without charging fee or at reduced fee? Voluntarism of this kind is already encouraged in Medicine, Law and Education. But ABET code states “Engineers shall not undertake or agree to perform any engineering service on a free basis” and other codes also insist that engineers are…
• One view is that no one is strictly obligated to participate in public decision making. It may be a moral ideal for citizens. • An opposite view is that all are obligated to devote sometime and energy in public polic y making. • Non-engineers should at least stay informed about public issues and professionals have obligations as…
Leadership responsibilities of engineers as citizens go beyond those of non-engineers. They should provide greater leadership in social debates about Industrial Pollution Automobile Safety Disposal of Nuclear Waste, etc.
– Stephen H. Unger, as an individual was mainly responsible for persuading IEEE to focus on supporting responsible engineers than punishing wrong doers. He was instrumental in IEEE presenting awards to the three BART engineers. – In 1988, NSPE created National Institute of Engineering Ethics with a mission to promote ethics within engineering. The focus was on …
Professional Societies – Promote continuing education for their members – Unify the profession, speak and act on behalf of them – Are a forum for communicating, organizing and mobilizing change within, a change which has a moral dimension. – Cannot take any pro-employee or pro-management stand since they have members in management, supervision and non-management. – But they can play…
Moral creativity is • Identifying most important values in particular situations • Focusing on them through effective communication within the group. • Deep commitments grounded in integrity to implement them. Creativity consists in identifying new possibilities for applying, extending and putting into practice, rather than inventing values.
Mussolini and Hitler were great leaders, but not ‘Moral Leaders’, since their goals were not morally valuable. ‘An Utopian society shall be governed by a philosopher-king whose moral wisdom best qualifies him to rule’ – Plato ‘Technologists were best qualified to govern because of their technical expertise, as well as their logical, practical and unprejudiced…
Leadership is ‘Successfully moving a group towards its common goal’. But Moral leaders are those who move the group successfully towards goals which do public good and not evils i.e. the goals must be ‘morally valuable’. Hence Moral Leaders can be defined as, ‘The individuals, who direct, motivate, organize, creatively manage and move groups toward…
Engineers perform as Leaders in the roles of 1. Managers 2. Business Entrepreneurs 3. Consultants 4. Academics and 5. Govt officials.