By

KHALID ASGHAR
 TEXT BOOK: Introduction to Engineering Ethics
by Mike Martin and Ronald
Reference Books:
1- Business Ethics by Moon & Bonny
2- Good Business by Sheena and John
3- The Right Thinking by Jeffrey L. seglin
4-Thinking Ethics edited by Beth Krasna
5- Rethinking business Ethics by Sandra &
Buchhloz
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 Definition: Engineering is the application of
scientific principles to design or develop
structures, equipment, or processes. The main
branches of engineering include electrical
engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical
engineering, civil engineering, aerospace
engineering, automotive engineering, and
computer engineering. A person who practices
engineering is called an engineer.
 Engineering is the discipline, art and
profession of acquiring and applying scientific,
mathematical, economic, social, and practical
knowledge to design and build structures,
machines, devices, systems, materials and
processes that safely realize a solution to the
needs of society.
 Professional art of applying science to the
optimum conversion of the resources of nature to
the uses of humankind.
Engineering is based principally on physics,
chemistry, and mathematics and their extensions
into materials science, solid and fluid mechanics,
thermodynamics, transfer and rate processes, and
systems analysis.
aerospace engineering, civil engineering, chemical
engineering. genetic engineering, mechanical
engineering, military engineering. Etc etc.
 Ethics
The science of human duty; the body of rules of
duty drawn from this science; a particular
system of principles and rules concerting duty,
whether true or false; rules of practice in
respect to a single class of human actions; as,
political or social ethics; medical ethics.
 Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a
branch of philosophy that addresses questions
about morality that is, concepts such as good
and evil, right and wrong, justice, virtue, etc.
 Code of ethics provide a framework for ethical
judgment for a professional.
Note the keyword, framework.
No code of ethics can cover all aspects and all
possible ethical situations that a professional
engineering is likely to encounter.
Rather, they serve as a starting point.
 It is not a recipe for ethical behavior rather its
just a framework.
It is not a legal document
It is not a substitute for sound judgment.
One cant be arrested for violating its
provisions, although expulsion from the
professional society might result from code
violations.
It does not create new morals or ethical
principles.
 Its spells out the ways in which moral and
ethical principles apply to professional
practice.
It helps the engineer to apply moral principles
to the unique situations encountered in
professional practice.

"Allah commands you to render (give) back your
trust to those to whom they are, and that when
you judge between people, you judge with
justice. Allah admonishes (warn-abt) you with
what is excellent."
"Give full measure and weight justly and
defraud (cheat) not men of their things, and act
not corruptly in the land, making mischief."
(harm)
"And let not hatred of a people incite
(provoke/motivate) you not to act equitably, Be

just; that is nearer to observance of

duty."
"Fulfill the obligations (responsibilities)
"And swallow (eat) not up your property
among yourselves by false means, nor
seek to gain access thereby to the judges,
so that you may swallow up a part of the
property of men wrongfully while you
know."
"And speak straight words."
"Avoid most of suspicion (doubt) for surely
suspicion in some cases is sin; and spy (discover
/ search out) not nor let some of you backbite
others."
"And follow not that of which thou hast no
knowledge. Surely the hearing and sight
and heart, of all these it will be asked."
"And help one another in righteousness
(honesty) and piety (faithfulness), and help not one
another in sin and aggression (violence), and
keep your duty to God."
"And whose affairs are decided by
counsel among themselves."
 First: Ethics is an activity and area of inquiry.
It is the activity of understanding moral values,
resolving moral issues, and justifying moral
judgment as well as the discipline or area of
study resulting from the activity.
Engineering Ethics, accordingly, is the activity
and discipline aimed at understanding the
moral values that ought to guide engineering
practice, resolving moral issues in engineering
and justifying moral judgment concerning
engineering.
 When we speak of ethical problems, issues and
contoversies, we mean to distinguish them
from non moral problem. Here the world
Ethical marks a contrast between moral
questions and the questions of the political,
legal and artistic in nature.
 Sometimes Ethics is used to refer to the
particular set of beliefs, attitudes, and habits
that a person or group displays concerning
morality.
This third sense of engineering ethics is a
purely factual matter about a what engineers
and other believe about moral problem in
engineering.
One our task will be to examine the accepted
convention in engineering to see if they are
clear, justified and sufficiently comprehensive.
 Synonym of Ethics is morally correct.
In this usage, engineering ethics amounts to be
endorsed by those engaged in engineering.
Discovering such principles and applying them
to concrete situations is the central goal of the
discipline of engineering ethics.