Ethics and Professional Mannerism in Civil Engineering

1. JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY,
JAIPUR
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“Ethical Problems and Professional Responsibility
: Issues and Challenges”

2. KYA HAI YAR?? ETHICS MEIN SALMAN KHAN
KYA KAR RAHA HAI…

3. CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

4. ETHICS – BASIC KNOWLEDGE
Ethics, also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally
good and bad, right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of
moral values or principles. Ethics could have come into existence only when human
beings started to reflect on the best way to live. This reflective stage emerged long
after human societies had developed some kind of morality, usually in the form of
customary standards of right and wrong conduct

5. ENGINEERING AS PROFESSION AND
ITS ETHICS
Professions is an occupation in which an individual uses an
intellectual skill based on an established body of knowledge and
practice to provide a specialized service in a defined area,
exercising independent judgment in accordance with a code of
ethics and in the public interest.
Engineering Ethics is the study of moral issues and decisions
confronting individuals and organization engaged in engineering.
The field examines and sets the obligations by engineers to society,
to their clients, and to the profession.

6. DIMENSIONS OF ETHICS IN
ENGINEERING
ETHICS
SOCIALLY
RESPONSIBLE
PROFESSIONAL
RESPONSIBLE

7. UNETHICAL PRACTICES IN CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRY
Use of
Black
Money
Time and
Cost
over runs
Unsafe
construction
Exploitative
Profit
margins

9. THE DILEMMA…
Engineer’s View Consumer’s View
 Safety Safety
 Security Economically
 Reliability Reliability
 Economically Security

10. THE 3-R’s…
Details in upcoming slides…
RULES
RESPONSIBITIES
RESPECT

11. CODE OF ETHICS
 What is a Code of Ethics?
 Need of Code of Ethics?
 Law and Ethics
 Best ethics, Can I buy ethics??

12. CODE OF ETHICS…
1. using their knowledge and skill for the
enhancement of human welfare and the
environment;
2. being honest and impartial and serving with
fidelity the public, their employers and clients;
3. striving to increase the competence and prestige
of the engineering profession; and
4. supporting the professional and technical societies
of their disciplines.
Fundamental Principles -

13. RESPONSIBITIES : WHISTLE BLOWING
A whistle blower (whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who
exposes misconduct, alleged dishonest or illegal activity occurring in an organization.
The alleged misconduct may be classified in many ways; for example, a violation of
a law, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to public interest, such as fraud, health
and safety violations, and corruption.

14. WHERE THERE IS A WAY, THERE IS A
WILL…
Ways to minimize unethical conducts -

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16. ITS UPTO YOU….
DECIDE WISE AND LIVE
BETTER 
THANKS FOR
LISTENING
Presented By –
Sumit Ghugharwal
Akash Upadhyay
Amrit Anand