A.

R Engineering College
Department of Mechanical Engineering

GE 6075 Professional Ethics in

Engineering
Presented by
Er.J.Sankar & K.Naveen
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
A.R Engineering College.

Unit-1 Human Values

Morals, values and Ethics Integrity Work ethic Service
learning Civic virtue Respect for others Living peacefully
Caring Sharing Honesty Courage Valuing time
Cooperation Commitment Empathy Self confidence
Character Spirituality Introduction to Yoga and meditation
for professional excellence and stress management.

Unit-2 ENGINEERING ETHICS

Senses of Engineering Ethics Variety of moral issues
Types of inquiry Moral dilemmas Moral Autonomy
Kohlbergs theory Gilligans theory Consensus and
Controversy Models of professional roles - Theories about
right action Self-interest Customs and Religion Uses of
Ethical Theories

Unit-3 ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL

EXPERIMENTATION
Engineering as Experimentation Engineers as responsible
Experimenters Codes of Ethics A Balanced Outlook on
Law.

Unit-4 SAFETY, RESPONSIBILITIES

AND RIGHTS
Safety and Risk Assessment of Safety and Risk Risk
Benefit Analysis and Reducing Risk Respect for Authority
Collective Bargaining Confidentiality Conflicts of Interest
Occupational Crime Professional Rights Employee Rights
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Discrimination

Unit-5 GLOBAL ISSUES

Multinational Corporations Environmental Ethics Computer
Ethics Weapons Development Engineers as Managers
Consulting Engineers Engineers as Expert Witnesses and
Advisors Moral Leadership Code of Conduct Corporate
Social Responsibility

Unit-1 Human
Values

Introduction to Human
Values(HV)
harmonious
HV helps live harmoniously.
Find what is wright and wrong.

adj.
1 tuneful; not
discordant.
2 free from conflict.

Specially religious systems play a major role.

All the HV are derived and experimented by our
self.
HV based on,
1. Equally respect to others feelings and opinions
2. Value the inter connection between the humankind and
environment.
3. Practice good attitude of non-violence.

Morals
Morals are the values that we attribute to a system of
beliefs that help the individual define right versus
wrong, good versus bad.
These are principle that derived from the wise peoples
through their experiences and wisdom.
Morality is concerned with principles and practices
of morals.

Ethics
Derived from the Greek word Ethos means, the
characteristic sprit or attitudes of a community,
people or system.
Definition for Ethics, It is defined as the discipline
that deals with what is good and bad and with moral
duty and obligation.
Major aspects are,
1. It is used to mean Morally correct
2. It is activity and process of inquiry.
3. It refers to a particular set of beliefs, attitudes and
habits of individuals or family or groups concerned

Values
Also known as worth.
It weighs choices of ones action.
Positive things such as, good, true, rich, strong are
considered real value.
Where as negative things such that bad, false, poor
and week are termed as disvalue.
Positive values only always preferred not negative
one.

Types of human values

1. Right conduct
2. Peace
3. Truth
4. Love
5. Non-violence

Right conduct
conduct
n. /"kQndVkt/
1 the manner in which a person behaves.
2 the directing or managing of something.
Values related to right conduct are,
1. Self help skills
2. Social skills
3. Ethical skills

Self-help skills
It concern of care of diet, hygiene, modesty,
posture, self-reliance and tidy appearance.
diet1
n.
1 the kinds of food that a person,
animal, or community habitually
eats.
2 a special course of food to which
a person
restricts themselves to
posture

n.
lose weight
or for medical reasons.

1 a particular position of
the body. the way in
which a person holds their
body.

hygiene
n.
1. conditions or practices
conducive to maintaining
health and preventing
disease, especially
cleanliness.

modest
adj.
1 unassuming in the
estimation of ones
abilities.
2 relatively
moderate, limited, or
small.
3 decent; decorous.

reliance
n. dependence on or trust in
someone or something.
DERIVATIVES reliant adj.

Social skills
These are,
1. Good behavior
2. Good manners
3. Good relationship
4. Helpfulness
5. No wastage

Ethical skills
These are
1. code of conduct
2. Courage
3. Dependability
4. Duty
5. Efficiency
6. Punctuality
7. resourcefulness and
8. responsibility.

Peace
It related to use of the tool of mind.
A strong will-power will enable one to discern the
differences between real needs and superfluous
desires.
Then the desire to own more and more things stops
and peaceful mind prevails.
Peace in individual leads to peace in family which
turn leads to peace in community.

peace
n.
1 freedom from disturbance;
tranquillity.

prevail
v.
1 prove more powerful; be

Truth
It is related to use of power of discrimination and
intellect.
A strong character is built by learning to speak the
truth.
Practicing and voicing untruth is anti-social act.
Telling lies hurts every one and is an inhuman
behavior.
discrimination
n.
1 the action of discriminating against
people.
2 recognition and understanding of the
difference between one thing and

intellect
n.
1 the faculty of reasoning and
understanding objectively.
2 a clever person

Love
It is related to use of the power of energy
It is a spontaneous pure action of heart and not an
emotion affected by the sub-conscious mind.
Love is an unconditional action, positive and regard
good of another.
Inculcating love in children leads to growth of
healthy mind and body.
inculcate /"InkVlkeIt/
v. instil (an idea or habit) by
persistent instruction.
DERIVATIVES inculcation n.
inculcator n.

Non-Violence
It is related to awaking the sprit within, that may be
psychological or social.
Non-violence of the natural law which create
harmony with the environment may be attributed to
non-violence.
Non-violence is a way that causes as little harm as
possible to one-self, other people, animals, plants,
etc.,

Integrity
The unity of thought word and deed and open
mindedness.

minded (n) adjective [usually in combination] inclined to think in a particular way:

Living Peacefully
Peace full living should be our way of life.
Almost all religious teach the important of living
peacefully in human life.
Hinduism emphasizes that Let the world prevail in
peace
Bible says an eternal life or a paradise earth living
in peace and harmony
eternal
emphasis
n
noun (plural emphases )
1
special importance, value,
or prominence given to
something.
2
stress laid on a word or
words in speaking.

n
adjective
1
lasting or existing forever. > informal tediously
lengthy or persistent.
2
valid for all time; essentially unchanging: eternal
truths.
3
(the Eternal) an everlasting or universal spirit,
as represented by God.

Caring
It is knowing, feeling and acting in the interest of
others.
It reflects in activities like friendship, social clubs,
professional societies

Sharing
Sharing is a process that describes the transfer of
knowledge, commodities and facilities with other
which should be genuine, legal, positive, voluntary
and with out any expectation in return.

Courage
It is a Latin word. Cor means Heart.
Tendency to accept and face risks and difficult task
in rational ways is called courage.
Courage is classified as Physical courage and social
courage.
It requires strength of mind, innovative ideas, will
rational
to survive stamina to hang on, sincerity of purpose.
n
adjective
1.
2.
3.
4.

based on or in accordance with reason or logic.

able to think sensibly or logically.
having the capacity to reason.
Mathematics (of a number, quantity, or expression)
expressible, or containing quantities which are
expressible, as a ratio of whole numbers.

Valuing Time
Time and tide wait for none
Time is a resource which we can't get back.
The time management helps how to utilize it.
Clear objectives, clear priorities, necessary tasks
identifications, planning tasks, allocate the
appropriate time for each task leads to effective time
management.

Cooperation
Present day many works are need collection of peoples to
complete the each task.
The group members may differ in variable kinds like
qualification, age, experience, financial etc.,
The cooperation between among them only a key to
accomplishment of the task.
In specially we mechanical engineers need the
cooperation in all our field such as production,
manufacturing for committing the day to day task
completion.

Commitment
Commitment means alignment to goals and adherence to ethical
principles during the activities.
A student has to be committed to studies and should get the
highest position.
A teacher should be committed to his works practicing
Punctuality, devotion, loyalty and fairness to student.
A farmer should highly committed to farming to get a high yield.
Thus, the commitment is action by everyone is bound to add
wealth to one self, once employer, society and the nation at
large.
commitment n
1 the state or quality of being committed to a cause, policy,
or person. a pledge or undertaking.
2 an engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of

Empathy
Empathy is defined as the ability to imagine oneself
in anothers place and understood others feelings,
desires, ideas and actions.
Benefits of having good empathy are, creating good
customer relations, harmonious relationship b/w
labour in manufacturing, good vendor-producer
relationship.

Self Confidence
It is ones own capabilities, values and goals.
It develops a sense of partnership, respect and
accountability and this helps the organization to
obtain maximum ideas, efforts and guidance from
its employees.

Character
Greek word Means, a mark impressed on a coin.
Character is the expression of the personality of a human
being and it is the one which reveals itself in ones conduct.
It plays a more dominant role by shaping ones life.
A persons nature in terms of the effect it has on their
behavior is called temperament.
Sensitive, Active, Apathetic and Intelligent.
emperament (noun )
1.a person's nature with regard to the effect it has on their behaviour.
2.the adjustment of intervals in tuning a piano or other musical instrument so as
to fit the scale for use in different keys.>(equal temperament) an adjustment
in which the twelve semitones are equal intervals

Spirituality
Spirituality in a broad sense refers to the way of
living.
It includes creativity, communication, recognition of
the individual as human being, vision and
partnership
Spirituality divided in two kinds, Religious
Spirituality and Workplace spirituality.