Engineering Ethics- why is it necessary? Explain
real life example of ethics issues in engineering.
Engineering
come from the Latin word which is ingenium
(cleverness) and ingeniare (device)
and which are applied in scientific, economic, and practical knowledge in order
to design or invent it. While ethics comes from Greek word, etikos / ethos which means custom, habit and sometimes also known as moral
philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and recommending concept what
is right and what is wrong. Engineering ethics is one of the field that applied
ethics and the system of the moral principles that apply to the practice of
engineering. The field examines and sets the obligations by engineers to
society, to their clients.
Engineering
ethics is necessary in order to become a professional engineer. Not all
engineers have a good intention. For example, they are certain engineers who
are doing their job just for money and taking bribe. The common cases are they
used the low quality things to build the building but demand it is as high
quality things and put the price higher than the real one. But, there also
people who are diligently doing his/her work. They try their best to do the
work that had been trusted to them. Visiting the site frequently, looking for
the best quality things at the low price. This is the moral that should have in
each engineer.
Nowadays,
in the real life, engineers are responsible for the people safety, awareness
toward environment, pollution, invented something that gave benefit for human.
There are few examples of ethics issues in engineering.. When it comes to
buildings, there are several ethics that should be followed. For example, engineers
have to make sure that all the specification which are specified by architect
are followed, engineers also have to do the calculation accurately to prevent
collapsing like happened to infamous of Tacoma Narrows Bridge. In the
medication world, engineers have to make sure the medicine is safe to eat and
do not give harm to our body because engineering is the future of medicine.
In conclusion,
engineers become the most important person when it comes to ethics. Without
engineers, people did not know whether the building is safe to live, the food
or medicine save to eat. Study the ethics can cause someone to think about
other people and not being selfish.
when i wrote this, i know what should i be, where is my goal and where should i aim..
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