GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING

1. GE6075-
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN
ENGINEERING

2. • OBJECTIVES:
To enable the students to create an
awareness on Engineering Ethics and Human
Values, to instill Moral and Social Values and
Loyalty and to appreciate the rights of others.

3. 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 time – Cooperation –Commitment
– Empathy – Self confidence – Character – Spirituality
– Introduction to Yoga and meditation for
professional excellence and stress management.

4. Human Values????

5. • Human values
Human values are nothing but
basic moral values one
ought(used to indicate duty or
correctness) to posses to live
as a citizen or as a person

6. Foundations of human values
• The innate(NATURAL) dignity of human life
• Respect and consideration for the ‘other’
• The interconnection between human kind
and the environment and thus the need to care
for and preserve the earth.
• The importance of integrity(the quality of
being honest ) and service
• An attitude of non-violence
• The individual and collective quest for peace
and happiness.

7. Why need Human values?
• Maintain their identities, qualities
• Traditions and character
• Cultural
• Human security
• Security on natural environment

8. Human values and Sub values
• Human Values can be broadly grouped under
the following headings………..
• Human values classified in to five divisions:
Love
Truth
Right conduct
Peace and
Non-violence

9. Love
Bliss
Caring
Compassion
Dedication
Devotion
Empathy
Friendship
Forgiveness
Generosity
Helping
Human dignity
Inner happiness
Joy
Kindness
Patience
Purity
Sharing
Sincerity
Sympathy
Tolerance
Wisdom

11. Truth
Consciousness
Creativity
Curiosity
Discrimination
Equality
Honesty
Integrity
Intuition
Natural environment
Optimism
Quest for knowledge
Reason
Self-analysis
Self-knowledge
Self-worth
Sense-control
Spirit of inquiry
Synthesis
Truthfulness
Unity in Thought
Unity in diversity

13. Right Conduct
Cleanliness
Contentment
Courage
Dependability
Duty
Ethics
Gratitude
Goals
Good behavior
Healthy living
Leadership
Perseverance
Time management
Resourcefulness
Respect
Responsibility
Sacrifice
Self-confidence

14. Peace
• Attention
• Calm
• Concentration
• Contentment
• Dignity
• Discipline
• Honesty
• Humility
• Self-control
• Self-discipline

16. Non-violence
Appreciation of other religions and cultures
Brotherhood
ceiling and desires
Citizenship
Compassion
Good manners
Loyalty
Respect for property
Service to other
Universal love
Unwilling to hurt

18. Morals
• Morals are guiding principles that every
citizen should hold.
• Morals are foundational concepts defined on
both an individual and societal level.
• At the most basic level, morals are the
knowledge of the difference between right
and wrong.

19. Morals-Definitions
• Of or concerned with the judgment of the
goodness or badness of human action and
character; pertaining to the discernment of
good and evil.
• Arising from conscience( confusion) or a
sense of right and wrong.

20. • Moral values are understood to be those that
make a person ‘good’ purely and simply as a
person.
• Morals values are personal, not only because
a person has them, but also because they are
expression of each one’s unique personality
in the innermost center of one’s being as
shown in the act of choice.

21. Characteristics of moral value
• Moral value can exist only in free personal being
and in that person’s voluntary or human acts.
• Moral value is universal in the sense that what
one holds for all in the same conditions.
• Moral value is self-justifying
• Moral value has preeminence( compare) over
every other value.
• Moral value implies (suggest) obligation

22. VALUES
• Values are individual in nature.
• Values are comprised of personal concepts of
responsibility, entitlement and respect.
• Values are shaped by personal experience, may
change over the span of a lifetime and may be
influenced by lessons learned.
• Values may vary according to an individual’s
cultural, ethnic and/or faith-based background.

23. • Never change your core values.”
• In spite of all the change around you, decide
upon what you will never change: your core
values.
• Take your time to decide what they are but once
you do, do not compromise on them for any
reason.
• Integrity is one such value.

24. Characteristics of values
• Values are bipolar, with a positive and a
negative pole such as pleasant, painful, easy,
difficult, strong, weak, rich, poor, beautiful,
ugly, true, false, good, and bad.
• The positive value pole is the one preferred.
• Negative pole is better not called a value at all
but a disvalue.
• Values are not homogeneous but of many kinds.

25. Ethics
• The word derives from the Greek word
‘ethos’, which means ‘the characteristic
spirit or attitudes of a community, people,
or system’.
• Ethics is the ‘art of human living’
• Ethics intends to form good men
• Ethics is the ‘science of man as a gentleman’.

26. Ethics in Relation to other studies
• Psychology and ethics
– Deals with human behaviour
• Anthropology and ethics
– Human various levels of culture and civilization
• Social sciences and ethics
– SS such as economic, political science.
• Law and ethics
– Ethics related to law, both deal with civil and moral law.

27. Integrity
• Integrity refers to a quality of a person’s
character.
• When it is applied to objects, integrity refers
to the purity of a thing.
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And
honesty is telling the truth to other people”

28. Person to be Integrity
• Integrity as Self integration
– Matter of keeping the self intact (original) and
uncorrupted
• Integrity as maintenance of identity
– Acting according to their commitments rather than
desires (own work)
• Integrity as standing for something
– Proper regard of their own judgment
• Integrity as moral purpose
– To understand the demands of such a life
• Integrity as a virtue (நல்ல ொழுக்கம்)

29. Work Ethics
• The work ethics is a cultural norm that
advocates being personally accountable and
responsible for the work that one does and is
based on a belief that work has intrinsic
value(அறிவின் மதிப்பு).

30. Elements of work ethics
1. Interpersonal skills:
 Habits, attitudes, manners, appearance etc,.
2. Initiative
1. Without initiative we missed the opportunities
can became the real problem
3. Being dependable
1. Being dependable is one of the high traits (
பண்புக்கூறுகள்) for workers in modern
workplace
2. Work ethic constructs Honesty, Reliability and
being on time.

31. Service learning

32. Service Learning
• Service learning is a teaching and learning
strategy that integrates meaningful community
service with instruction and reflection to
enrich the learning experience, teach civic
responsibility, and strengthen communities.

33. Why is service-learning important?
• Promoting learning through active
participation in service experiences.
• Providing structured time for students to reflect
thinking, discussing and writing about their
services.
• Extending learning beyond the classroom and
into the community
• A sense of caring for others.

34. Characteristics of service learning
• Service learning links academic contents and
standards.
• It is reciprocal in nature, benefiting both the
community and the service providers.
• It works at all ages even among young children
• Its positive meaningful and real to the
participants

35. • Civic virtue is morality or a standard of
righteous behaviour in relationship to a
citizen’s involvement in society.
• An individual may exhibit civic virtue by
voting, volunteering, organizing a book
group, or attending a public- oriented
meeting.
• Importance of civic virtue?
• Why civic virtue?
Civic Virtue

36. Importance of civic virtue
• Civic virtue helps people understand their ties to the
community and their responsibilities within it. In
many ways, an educated citizen who possesses civic
virtue is a public good.
• Schools and colleges teach civic responsibility to
students with the goal to produce responsible citizens
and active participants in community and government.

37. Respect for others
• Respect is of great importance in everyday life.
• Call to respect this or that are increasingly part of
public life.
• Increase the happiness of the life.
Respect Others
The ability to see the actual individual is part of
acknowledging each other, and the first step to
positive regard.
Respect for the whole person entails listening to
others opinions, their feelings, their time, even their
physical space.
• At the core of "respect others" is the "golden
rule," do unto others as you would have them do
unto you.

38. Few golden rules to have a good relations with
people
• Respect others
• Think positively
• Pay attention
• Make a difference
• Speak kindly
• Say thank you
• Accept others
• Rediscover silence
• Listen
• Keep your cool

39. Living Peacefully
• Peace can be said to be a passive state
(செயலற்ற நிலல) of mind.
• Yet it has its own strength and power
• Living peacefully is not only individual, but
collective.
• Individual peace can lead to collective peace and
vice versa.
• Living in peace collectively is essential if something
meaningful is to be achieved out of meetings,
gatherings, and organizational and institutional
activities.
“you must be the change you want to see in the world”

40. Caring
• Caring is knowing, feeling, and acting in the
interest of others.
• To care for another person is to help him/her
grow and actualize him/herself.

41. 1. The goal of caring is to help the other
actualize himself
2. Caring is an extension of one’s self
3. Devotion(பக்தி) and constancy(சீரொன)
are essential elements of caring
4. Caring for another helps the other to care
for and about others.
5. Learning and living a life of caring involves
all other values.
Caring

42. Sharing
• Sharing is one of a noble act of mankind and a
high virtue.
• Sharing with others should be a part of human
nature and life.
• Sharing could be in the form of money, food,
material, book, knowledge, time, thoughts,
happiness, sorrow, and work
• Sharing should be the motto of good help.
• We should not look at the person we are sharing
with to show our gesture or expect thanks in
return.

43. “Honesty is the best policy”
• Honesty means expressing your true feelings.
• Emotional Intelligence which gives us the
ability to accurately identify our feelings.
• If we are more honest with ourselves we will
get to know our “true selves” on a deeper
level. This could help us become more self-
accepting .

44. Courage
• Courage means the ability to face down those
imaginary fears and reclaim the far more
powerful life that we’ve denied ourselves.
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-
not absence of fear.
• Courage is being scared to death, but saddling
up anyway.

46. Building courage
• Strength of mind
• Innovative ideas
• Will to survive
• Stamina to hang on
• Sincerity of purpose and
• Seriousness of attempt
Ways to build courage:
1. Raise your consciousness
2. Move from fear to action, even if you expect
to fail.

47. Valuing Time

48. • 24 HOURS (1/3 part of Sleeping, remaining for
working).
• Ordinary person utilize more hours for work.
• Because TIME IS MONEY; WORK IS MONEY.
• All successful persons are good in time management.
• Time is a measure of ones usefulness and success – it is a
MORAL VALUE.
TIME AS A RESOURCE:
– Time is money.
– Time cannot be stored like money.
– Compared to other resource it cannot be retainable.
VALUING TIME

49. TIME MANAGEMENT:
• Time perhaps is the most important resource ever
known to the human beings.
• A famous personality says “Time is most valuable
thing we deal with. It cannot be bought, it cannot be
recaptured.
• It must be utilized with the highest degree of
effectiveness possible.
• Time is scarcest (Not enough) resource, and unless it is
managed, nothing else can be managed”
VALUING TIME

50. 1. Habitual use of time
2. Goal setting
3. Priorities
4. Communication
5. Procrastination(delay)
S- Specific.
M- Measurable.
A- Achievable
R- Realistic
T- Timed
MAJOR AREAS THAT HELP IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF TIME
VALUING TIME

51. Those who are wasting or throwing there
valuable time away.
There are two types of ‘Time wasters’:
1. Internal time wasters – Caused by self
2. External time wasters – Caused by others.
Time Wasters
VALUING TIME

52. Internal Time wasters:
• Poor communication
• Procrastination (postponding)
• Inability to say ‘No’
• Poor prioritizing
• Inadequate planning
VALUING TIME
Internal Time Wasters

53. • Visitors
• Meetings
• Telephone
• Procedure and systems
• Travel
• Subordinates
VALUING TIME
External Time Wasters

54. • Clear objectives – Overall objective broken to smaller
• Prioritize tasks – Priority wise arrangement
• Stick to scheduled task – Involvement to finish
• Allow time to manage your time – Slot for time
- management
• The unexpected – One has to consider the expected jobs
• Managing time wasters – Time waste should be reduced
TIME MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
VALUING TIME

55. Cooperation is the process of groups of organisms
working or acting together for their
common/mutual benefit.
CO-OPERATION
Team work- Pulling together can we move
mountains
Without Co-operation , they create FEAR,
CONUFSION etc,.
EXAMPLES:
 Institutions
 Industry
 Goverment

56. • The state or quality of being dedicated to a
cause, activity, etc.
COMMITMENT

57. Empathy (through FEELINGS)
• The ability to imagine oneself in another’s place and
understand the other’s feelings, desires, ideas, and
actions.
or
• The ability to understand and share the feelings of
another.

58. Sympathy- actions. Empathy - Feelings
Benefits of Empathy
1. Empathy connects people together
2. Empathy Heals(curing problems)
3. Empathy builds trust
4. Empathy closes the loop.
Empathy

59. Self Confidence
- a feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgement.

60. Character
- the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual

61. Character

62. Spirituality
• Spirituality is a board term that refers to the
way of living.
• It emphasizes a constant awareness of the
spiritual dimension of nature.
• It is a sense of meaning and purpose, a ‘sense
of self’.

63. Spirituality
Spirituality can be of two kinds:
1. Religious spirituality
2. Workplace spirituality
 Spirituality related to religion
 Spirituality in workplace

64. YOGA and MEDITATION
for Professional excellence &
Stress Management

65. • Meditation is an important and powerful
technique for the stress management, which
reduces the activation of sympathetic nervous
system and also it reduces the level of stress
harmones.