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In Engineering Ethics: Principles, Responsibilities, and Decision-making Frameworks That Guide Professional Engineering Practice, you'll learn ...
- The fundamental principles, definitions, and scope of engineering ethics in professional practice
- The role of ethical theories and professional codes in guiding engineering decision-making
- The responsibilities of engineers in ensuring public safety, managing risk, and maintaining integrity
- How to evaluate complex engineering dilemmas involving sustainability, social justice, and emerging technologies
Overview
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Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 63 pages
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of engineering ethics, focusing on the principles, responsibilities, and decision-making frameworks that guide professional engineering practice. It begins with foundational concepts, including the distinction between ethics and morality, and progresses through key ethical theories such as utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics. The course emphasizes the importance of professional codes of ethics, particularly those established by major engineering organizations, and highlights the central obligation to protect public safety, health, and welfare.
Participants examine critical topics including risk assessment, acceptable risk, whistleblowing, conflicts of interest, and the role of honesty and integrity in engineering work. The course also addresses contemporary challenges such as sustainability, environmental responsibility, social justice, and ethical issues in emerging technologies and data systems. Through structured ethical decision-making models and real-world case studies, learners develop the ability to analyze complex situations and justify ethically sound actions.
Designed for practicing engineers and engineering managers, the course reinforces the idea that ethical judgment is an essential component of technical competence and professional responsibility.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between ethics and morality and explain their relevance to engineering responsibilities
- Apply major ethical theories, such as utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics, in engineering contexts
- Describe the structure and purpose of professional codes of ethics from organizations such as NSPE, ASCE, and IEEE
- Identify and analyze ethical issues related to public safety, risk, and acceptable risk
- Explain the principles and ethical implications of whistleblowing in engineering practice
- Recognize, disclose, and manage conflicts of interest in professional decision-making
- Explain the importance of honesty and integrity in engineering communication, reporting, and judgment
- Describe the integration of sustainability and environmental ethics into engineering design and decision-making
- Evaluate engineering decisions in terms of social justice, equity, and societal impact
- Apply structured ethical decision-making frameworks to real-world engineering case studies
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 63 pages
