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Engineering Ethics and Professional Values

The document provides a lecture schedule for a Professional Ethics class for final year electrical engineering students. It lists the dates and topics to be covered over a period from December 2011 to February 2012. The topics are divided into 5 units covering human values, engineering ethics, engineering as social experimentation, safety and risk issues, and global issues. References books on engineering ethics are also provided.

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Engineering Ethics and Professional Values

The document provides a lecture schedule for a Professional Ethics class for final year electrical engineering students. It lists the dates and topics to be covered over a period from December 2011 to February 2012. The topics are divided into 5 units covering human values, engineering ethics, engineering as social experimentation, safety and risk issues, and global issues. References books on engineering ethics are also provided.

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SURYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, ERODE 638 107 DEPARTMENT OF EEE LECTURE SCHEDULE Name of the Faculty : M.

.Balamurugan Subject :PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Class :FINAL YEAR EEE-VIII SEMESTER

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Proposed Date Period


2 6 1 6 8 2 4 1 6 8 2 6 1 6

Topics to be Covered UNIT I HUMAN VALUES Morals, Values and Ethics


Integrity Work Ethic Service Learning Civic Virtue Respect for Others Living Peacefully caring Sharing Honesty Courage Valuing Commitment Empathy Self-Confidence Character

Teaching Aids Used (if any)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

12.12.11 12.12.11 13.12.11 14.12.11 14.12.11 19.12.11 19.12.11 20.12.11 21.12.11 21.12.11 26.12.11 26.12.11 27.12.11 28.12.11 28.12.11 09.01.12 09.01.12 10.01.12 11.01.12 11.01.12 17.01.12 18.01.12 18.01.12 23.01.12 23.01.12 24.01.12 25.01.12 25.01.12

Spirituality
UNIT - II ENGINEERING ETHICS Senses of 'Engineering Ethics variety of moral issued - types of inquiry moral - dilemmas,

moral autonomy 8 Kohlberg's theory - Gilligan's theory 2 consensus and controversy 6 Models of Professional Roles 1 theories about right action - Self-interest 6 customs and religion - uses of ethical theories UNIT - III ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION 8 Engineering as experimentation 1 engineers as responsible experimenters 6 engineers as responsible experimenters 8 codes of ethics 2 codes of ethics 6 a balanced outlook on law 1 a balanced outlook on law 6 the challenger case study 8 the challenger case study

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2 6 1 6 8 2 6 1 6 8 2 6 1 6 8 2 6

Topics to be Covered

Teaching Aids Used (if any)

29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45

30.01.12 30.01.12 31.01.12 01.02.12 01.02.12 06.02.12 06.02.12 07.02.12 08.02.12 08.02.12 20.02.11 20.02.11 21.02.11 22.02.11 22.02.11 27.02.11 27.02.11

Safety and risk, assessment of safety and risk risk benefit analysis and reducing risk the three mile island and chernobyl case studies Collegiality and loyalty respect for authority collective bargaining - confidentiality conflicts of interest - occupational crime comparative merits of different circuit professional rights employee rights Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) - discrimination.

UNIT - V GLOBAL ISSUES


Multinational corporations Environmental ethics computer ethics,weapons development, engineers as managers consulting engineers engineers as expert witnesses advisors moral leadership Sample code of Ethics Sample code of Ethics

REFERENCE BOOKS 1 Mike Martin and Roland Schinzinger, "Ethics in engineering", McGraw Hill, New York 1996. 2 Govindarajan M, Natarajan S, Senthil Kumar V. S, Engineering Ethics, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2004. 3 Charles D. Fleddermann, "Engineering Ethics", Pearson Education/ Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2004 (Indian Reprint now available) 4 Charles E Harris, Michael S. Protchard and Michael J Rabins, Engineering Ethics Concepts and Cases, Wadsworth Thompson Leatning, United States, 2000 (Indian Reprint now available ) 5 John R Boatright, Ethics and the Conduct of Business, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2003. 6 Edmund G Seebauer and Robert L Barry, Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 .

FACULTY INCHARGE

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