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Understanding Professional Ethics in Engineering

This document discusses professional ethics and engineering as a profession. It begins by asking essential questions about what constitutes a profession and what ethics and professional ethics are. It then examines characteristics of professions, including extensive training, vital skills and knowledge, autonomy, and ethical regulation. Two models of professionalism are presented: the business model and professional model. The document outlines three types of ethics - common morality, personal morality, and professional ethics. It discusses features of professional ethics and how they differ from other forms of ethics. The document concludes by discussing engineering as a potential profession and key takeaways about professional ethics.

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Understanding Professional Ethics in Engineering

This document discusses professional ethics and engineering as a profession. It begins by asking essential questions about what constitutes a profession and what ethics and professional ethics are. It then examines characteristics of professions, including extensive training, vital skills and knowledge, autonomy, and ethical regulation. Two models of professionalism are presented: the business model and professional model. The document outlines three types of ethics - common morality, personal morality, and professional ethics. It discusses features of professional ethics and how they differ from other forms of ethics. The document concludes by discussing engineering as a potential profession and key takeaways about professional ethics.

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PROFESSIONAL

ETHICS
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
o What is a profession?
o Is engineering a profession?

o What is ethics?
o What is professional ethics?
#reference
OCCUPATION* PROFESSION

*a way to make a living


Sociological Analysis
of Professionalism

Identifying characteristics
o Extensive training
o Vital knowledge and skills
o Control of services
o Autonomy in the workplace
o Claim to ethical regulation

ALTRUISM SELF-INTEREST
Professions as Social Practices
Social Practice
any coherent and complex form of
socially established cooperative
human activity through which goods
internal to that form of activity are
realized in the course of trying to
achieve those standards of
excellence which are appropriate to,
and partially definitive of, that form
of activity.
Professions as Social Practices

Social Practice
o has one or more aims or goods
o inconceivable without a distinctive aim
o morally justifiable aims
o aims provide moral criteria
Socratic Account of Professionalism
“A profession is a number of
individuals in the same occupation
voluntarily organized to earn a living
by openly serving a moral ideal in a
morally permissible way beyond
what law, market, morality, and
public opinion would otherwise
require.” – Michael Davis
Socratic Account of Professionalism

Features (Davis’s definition)


o composition
o public element
o occupation
o voluntary entry
o morally praiseworthy goal
o morally permissible means
o obligatory ethical standards
Is engineering a true profession?
2 Models of Professionalism

o The Business Model


o The Professional Model
ETHICS
3 Types of Ethics or Morality

Common Morality
o set of moral beliefs shared by
almost everyone
3 Types of Ethics or Morality

Personal Morality
o set of moral beliefs that a
person holds
3 Types of Ethics or Morality

Professional Ethics
o set of standards adopted by
professionals insofar as they
view themselves acting as
professionals
3 Types of Ethics or Morality
Professional Ethics (Characteristics)
o stated in formal code
o focused on profession-related issues
o take precedence over personal
morality
o degree of restriction of personal
conduct
o negative and positive dimension
Negative Face of Engineering Ethics

PREVENTIVE ETHICS
Positive Face of Engineering Ethics

ASPIRATIONAL ETHICS
Take-Home Ideas
o Engineering: profession by some
definitions and not as clearly by other
definitions
o Ethical commitment: central to most
accounts of professionalism.
o Professional ethics characteristically
distinguished from personal ethics
and common morality
Take-Home Ideas
o Possible conflicts between
professional ethics, personal ethics,
and common morality raise important
moral questions.
o Professional engineering ethics: has
a negative part and a positive part
Presidential Executive Order 220
Directing the adoption of the Code of
Good Governance for the Professions in
the Philippines

Effective June 23, 2003.


General Principles of Professional
Conduct
o Ethical commitment: a personal
resolve to act ethically
o Ethical awareness: the ability to
discern between right and wrong
o Ethical competence: the ability to
engage in sound moral reasoning and
consider carefully the implications of
alternative actions
Specific Principles of Professional
Conduct
1. Service to Others
2. Integrity and Objectivity
3. Professional Competence
4. Solidarity and Teamwork
5. Social and Civic Responsibility
6. Global Competitiveness
7. Equality of All Professions

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