When being an electrical engineer, acting in a professional way is one of the most important things to remember. Supplying products or doing services in a professional way makes companies look better and more appealing to consumers. Clients are very important to engineering because they bring in most of the money for engineering professions. Clients want professional businesses they can trust and have faith that the good or service being done for them is being done correctly and efficiently. With that though the clients must also be respectful to the professionals doing the task for them. These professionals are taking time to create a good or perform a service for their client. A strong relationship between a professional and their client in engineering is key to the success of the business and should be taken very seriously. Engineering professionals though also must have interactions with the general public when creating things like building, bridges and other big monuments. These things will be used every day by individuals and engineering professionals must ensure that that they are safe for other people. Engineering professionals must be very knowledgeable in what they are doing because the things that are created by engineers affect thousands of people every day. Experience is key to creating something clients will like because professionals know what has worked in the past and what has not worked. They also know from experience what clients are looking for and what kind of a relationship is needed in order to keep clients happy. In order to be a successful engineering professional one must be knowledgeable at what they do, calm and patient with clients and consumers, and lastly be independent and not vulnerable so clients ...
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...ue to perform services for the clients in the future. In some cases though, there are gray areas that make it tougher. In some situations as an engineer, there are times when you both sides of a decision is right but one side is just more ethically the better choice. An example of this is when a professional has the blueprint from a client for a new building and the client has made a blueprint that is unsafe in order to save money. In this situation, the engineer must decide to breach confidentiality and make the ethical decision or to maintain confidentiality and continue with the unethical intentions. Maintaining confidentiality benefits both the professional and the client but maintaining confidentiality could compromise public safety or have a negative impact. Engineers like to avoid these gray area conflicts because they are tough decisions and cause conflict.
Each profession has their own way of navigating ethical dilemmas, which are problems that don’t have a clear ethical/moral choice. The ethical decision
Ethics is an important proponent when considering any decision. Knowing the difference between right and wrong is something everyone should know. However, the importance of ethics gets minimized when a decision that seems wrong actually has benefits. In the efforts of improving society, often ethics is violated. Sometimes in order for society to be better off as a whole, there has to be little sacrificing of ethical practices along the way to do so.
Immanuel Kant is a philosopher of the early centuries, one of his well-known works is his moral theory which can be referred to as Deontology. The moral theory arises from the principle behind Deontology which is derived from -deon which signifies rule or law and -ology which means the study of. Kant designed his moral theory to be contradictory to utilitarianism which is a moral theory that focuses on the outcomes of an action. Beside other factors the moral theory is a non-consequentialist moral theory which in basic terms means the theory follows a law based system of making judgements and disregards the consequences. Kant once said “Actions are only morally good if they are done because of a good will” however, for Kant a good will is complex
Immanuel Kant was German philosopher who was an influential figure in modern philosophy since he was one of the first to analyze the process of thinking. Kant was not only just a prominent figure in philosophy, but contributed greatly in metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. Some of his major works were the Critique of Pure Reason, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgement. His form of ethics or philosophy is known as Kantian Ethics which are mostly based off of deontology, which is the ethical position that judges an action based on its morality and not the consequence. Like any philosophy on ethics, there are pros and cons to it and we will analyze them. I personally believe that
Philosophy is the study of knowledge, reality, existence and thought processes. Immanuel Kant from Prussia, (currently Russia) for whom was influential during the Enlightenment period; and John Stuart Mill from Great Britain whom was present during the Romantic era, explored ideas that they believed would create a more fair and just society, by trying to legislate morality. Morality cannot be legislated because it is a concept of right and wrong created by each different religion, region and culture; issues are not black and white.
permissible for a person to act in that manner by seeing if it would be
Normative ethics have received much praise and criticism from well-respected philosophers for many years. Structured by Immanuel Kant, arguably one of the greatest minds in history, Kantian ethics have changed the way people look at what truly makes an action “right.” Kant believed that developing a moral system that was consistent and based entirely on reason was achievable. He urged ethics that are knowable without reference to sense experience, or as he calls “a priori” claims, because they are universal and binding. Kant argued that it is impossible to ground ethics on religion. Instead, he turned to a vague sense of natural law and states that rules exist to rational beings, whether on this universe or any other, simply because they are rational beings.
However, Kant’s moral philosophy view is not without its problems. This is because the good will is not always inherently good without being qualified despite what Kant may claim. This can be seen as even if a person is an altruist who always tries to do their duty they can end up generating misery instead of pleasure. For example, say that you are going out and stealing from the rich to give to those less fortunate. In doing this you are only trying to help people and follow a duty to aid your fellow man, and it does not matter what consequences you may face due to your actions as you are supposed to have a good will even if it will get you into trouble. For a more extreme example say you are hiding Jews in your attic in Nazi Germany. The
On September 11, 2001, this country was under attack and thousands of Americans died at the hands of terrorists. This action caused the U.S. Military to invade Iraq because of the idea that this country was involved in harboring terrorist and were believed to have weapons of mass destruction. This was an executive order that came down from our government, for us to go in and attack Iraq while searching for those who were responsible for the death of American lives. This war brought in many prisoners whom were part of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, whom the military took into custody many of its lower level members to get tips in capturing higher level members. During the detainees stay at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, many of these prisoners
Many ethical dilemmas are philosophical in nature, an ethical issue can be described as a problem with no clear resolution. In order to solve the issue or dilemma a consensus between the parties involved must be reached. There are several reasons to come to an agreement over an ethical dilemma, it is the basis for all aspects of personal and professional dealings. Each one of us is part of a civilized society and as such it is our responsibility to be rational, honest and loyal in our dealings with others. (Alakavuklar, 2012) states that individuals make decisions for different situations in business life involving various ethical dilemmas. Each time either consciously or unconsciously individuals may follow some ethical approaches
People face ethical choices every day, and there are several different approaches towards reaching a decision. A professor is tasked with making a decision as to whether he should report a high-achieving student, Charlie, for plagiarizing an article. The professor must use reasoning and ethics. One of the most famous form of ethics is Kantian ethics, which is a form of deontology, or duty-based ethics. The professor can use Kantian ethics to make his decision, or he can take into account the context of the situation to further asses as I would do.
An ethical dilemma is only examined in a situation which has the following conditions; the first condition takes place in a situation, when an individual has to make a decision on which course of action is best. The second condition is there must be more than one course of action to choose from. The third action is no matter what course of action is taken, certain ethical principles are conceded. In other terms, there is no perfect result. When defining what forms an ethical dilemma, it is important to make a division between ethics, morals, values, laws and policies.
Is the field of practical ethics and method of moral principles that apply to the practice of engineering. The field studies decisions confronting individuals and organizations engaged in engineering and sets the responsibilities by engineers to society, to their clients, and to the profession. Bas...
Ethical rules governing the relationship, “the engineer - the employer” and “engineer – client” require diligent performance of business obligations: provide engineering services to a client or employer that promised to produce, finish work at the scheduled time and within budget, and if not possible to achieve, inform a client or employer as soon as possible to prevent delays, so that the corrective action can be taken, and not to disclose information relating to the state of affairs or technical processes of his former or current client or employer without their consent (NSPE 2003, 01). As recorded in the Code of Ethics of the National Society of Professional Engineers – NSPE, “Engineers shall not reveal facts, data, or information without the prior consent of the client or employer except as authorized or required by law or this...
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