The presentation consists of a summary of the following units. 1) Unit 1 Engineering Ethics 2) Unit 2 Engineering As Social Experimentation 3) Unit 3 Safety, Responsibility and Rights 4) Unit 4 Global Issues

1. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN COMPUTING
Y a s h L u c a s
D r . F r . J o s s y P G o e r g e
Unit 1 Engineering Ethics
Unit 2 Engineering As
Social Experimentation
Unit 3 Safety,
Responsibility and Rights
Unit 4 Global Issues

2. UNIT I ENGINEERING ETHICS
Variety Of Moral Issues
1) Resource Crunch
2) Opportunities
3) Attitude
Types of Inquiry
1) Normative
2) Conceptual
3) Factual
Theories on Moral Development
Ethical Theories
Senses of “Ethics Engineering”
1) Normative
2) Descriptive
Kohlberg Gilligan
-Study of men.
-Ethics of rules and
Regulations.
-Study of men and women.
-Women give attention to
circumstances and personal
relationships.
Ethical Theories
1) Utilitarian theory-action is right if it results in the
happiness of the greatest number of people
2) Rights theory-they respect human rights of every one
affected, three basic human rights, namely life, liberty,
and property.
3) virtue theory - emphasizes on the character rather than
the rights or duties
4) Justice theory - Aristotle said that “equals should be
treated equally and unequals unequally.”
Morality Ethics
-More general and
prescriptive
-Concerned with the result
of wrong action.
Ex.- Corruption
-Specific and descriptive.
-Concerned with the result
of right action.
Ex.- Customs
Types of Moral Dilemmas
1) Problem of vagueness
2) Problem of conflicting reasons
3) Problem of disagreement

3. UNIT II ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION
What is Engineering?
Engineering is the application of science
and math concerned with the design,
building, and use of engines, machines, and
structures.
Similarities b/w standard projects and engineering
projects
Partial Ignorance Continuous Monitering
Uncertainty Learning from the past.
Difference b/w standard
and engineering
experiments
Exepriemental Control
Informed consent
Knowledge gained
Features of responsible
engineers
Conscientiousness
Comprehensive perspective
Moral Autonomy
Accountability
Code of Ethics
Integrity
Competence
Individual Responsibilities
Professional Responsibilities
Human concern
Code of Ethics are Primary aspect is to provide basic frame work for the ethical judgment for a professional, also can be
said as roles and responsibilities of professions.

4. UNIT III SAEFTY, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS
Determination of risk
Knowledge of risk
Uncertainties of designing
Testing for safety
Methods to determine the risk
Testing on the functions of safety-
system components.
Destructive Testing.
Prototype testing
Simulation testing
Types of Risk
Acceptable risk
Voluntary risk and control
Job related risk
Personal Risk
Public risk
Safety is defined as the risk that is known and judged as acceptable.
Risk is a potential that something unwanted and harmful may occur.
Risk analysis
Scenario Analysis
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
(FMEA)
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Event Tree Analysis (ETA)

5. UNIT III SAEFTY, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS
Rights of Engineers
Human Rights
Employee Right
Professional Right
Engineering Responsibilites
Internal Responsibilities External Responsibilities
Collegiality Confidentiality
Loyalty Conflict of Interest
Respect for authority Occupational Crimes
Collective bargaining
Reducing Risk
Risk Avoidance
Risk Transfer
Risk Reduction
Risk Retention
Risk Management
Risk Identification
Risk Evaluation
Risk Control
Risk-Benefit -Analysis- Helps to analyse the risk in a project and to determine whether project should be carried
out or not.

6. Trademark- It is a wide identity of specific goods and services, permitting differences to be made among different trades.
Ex- If you're starting a new business or trade, a logo, name or signature is the first thing you choose to separate yourself
from the rest. Trademarks (®) are intellectual property in a brand (such as Coke®) .
Copyright- is a right given by the law to creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and producers of
cinematograph films and sound recordings. Copyright law (©) is intellectual property in creative works, such as books,
music, and movies (and presentations!).
Patents- A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making,
using, selling and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public
disclosure of the invention.
It is the information or original expression that derives its original
values from creative ideas and is with a commercial values.
It is an accent that can be brought or sold, licensed and exchanged.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Elements of IPR

7. UNIT IV GLOBAL ISSUES
Important dimensions of global
issues
Multinational corporations
Environmental Ethics
Computer Ethics
Weapons Ethics
Senese of Relative Values
Ethical Relativism
Descriptive Relativism
Moral Relativism
Ethical Pluralism
Globalization can be referred as the growing interdependence of the world's economies, cultures, and populations.

8. Engineers As Managers
Managerial Roles
Interpersonal
Informational
Decisional
Engineers have potential of understanding the business techniques of any corporate body.

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