ETHICS OF ENGINEERING IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Ethics of Engineering in Everyday Life

Ruben Acosta
RWS 1301 MW 1:30- 2:50
Professor: Paul La Padre
May 11,2015

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When I was a child my main interest was to build. Also architecture benefits us in
everyday life. I still remember my parents getting mad at me, since I opened or even
disassembled common household items such a controllers, clocks and my grandmothers
television. Since then, my parents had to keep a close eye on me. Since that moment I knew I
wanted to be an engineer. In my opinion, a career is not a job of a field but instead it is a way of
life.
Therefore, to be an engineer not only do you have to get your degree but your ethics is
very important since the engineer serve to the general public and looks out for the benefit of the
people. That leads to thinking that common thing should learn from the beginning since the
student is enrolled in the public school offered by our government. From there the student would
be able to see the flaws in our school and consequently our government. But in the classroom
and with the advancement of technology there must be a change
Since technology has been a big thing with the last couple of year and with their
advancement not only it is easy to copy or cheat but rather than most it zombify the user, it
makes him/her to not think and only live in the moment. Especially when it comes to math and
spelling a lot of people depend in the technology to do the hard work. I have sat down in a high
school class of math and English classrooms, and I saw students adding a simple number or
trying to spell but ending up looking up the word. Now more and more technology is being
added to the curriculum of the classes each day more and more students are trying to find the
easy way out the way that they can take without having to exert the out most energy or time. In a
since they are right and that is what an engineer trys to do to find a faster and more convenient
work from point A to point B. but the manner they try to reach the objective.

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In order to better understand the problem, we must first understand what an engineer,
according with Mike W. Martin and Roland Schinzinger in Introduction to Engineering Ethics
second edition. Tell us that an engineer is Engineering is an important and learned profession.
As members of this profession, engineers are expected to exhibit the highest standards of honesty
and integrity direct and vital impact on the quality of life for all people, engineers require
honesty, impartiality, fairness, and equity, and must be dedicated to the protection of the public
health, safety, and welfare. As well Engineers must perform under a standard of professional
behavior that requires adherence to the highest principles of ethical conduct. By this the
engineer is oblige to serve the general public since we are here for them. Now to define the
problem in the coming generations and addicted the current ones.
They look for the simple way out, in the end they are the ones that are being affected. So
looking back in to the high schools and the middle school one can see that the incorporation of
technology is an advantage, at the same time we are making the kids to depend on. Not only
students should be affected but as well the teacher or professor that is given the lecture. If they
approached with the state of mine that they are there to benefit the student not just to be there
and give a class that he know that nobody pays attention. Buy having the professor to think like
an engineer we have them to think in the benefit of there student and how they might help the
professor to improve upon. In the article EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND ETHICAL
ISSUES IN ENGINEERING by NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING OF THE
NATIONAL ACADEMIE, they go over how the ethic of engineering affect ever to those that
least expected. As well in the article Thinking Like an Engineer: The Place of a Code of Ethics
in the Practice of a Profession by Michael Davis, he goes over how it is important the safety of

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every one that they work with and that it could be difficult if your moral dont consider with
what the people that are funding experiment or academic. That if they dont reach their desired
outcome they might find some one that will give them what they want with less of the moral
standards that one might have. All this goes around the morals of the student, researcher, teacher
or professor, to become a bettor citizen. After all, that is the definition of an engineer, a public
servant that looks for the benefit of the citizens and there safety. Going back to thinking like
and Engineer not only they are there to keep an eye on the safety of all of the employer but as
well there bosses and equals. They have to look at every possibility that might occur. That might
conflict with the time line that the people that are funding the project might have there time line
to occur prissily as they with and if there are any set back and that it is because of the morals that
the engineer is caring, they will not doughty to look for some one else that will bring them the
results that they are looking for.
Either way it affect Even those that are not pursuing an Engineering field since now a
days engineers are being hired in work places outside of regular jobs such as advising, in
hospitals and even schools. Since they are able to apply there morals in what they do, and they
try to find the best way with the safes process and the best outcome without sacrificing a lot. As
seen in the article Introduction To Engineering Ethics they go over and experiment that a
couple of Engineering majors had to face, they were to build a habitat that would double the eggs
and chicken production in a farm. Couple of restrains that they were force to overcome were the
trouble that it has to accommodate the chickens, it has to protected from predators and is has to
be able to protect them from the predators that dig under the fence. It also has to meet the
sanitary standers for humans. It seem an easy task but it turns out to be extremely complicated

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since they were given a limited materials and only common thing that a farm could obtain.
Couple of restrains that they were force to overcome were the trouble
After all not everything can be sugar coated since there are a lot of people that are agents
The usage of any electronics in the school since the student will be accommodated and even
encourage to cheat but to be honest people find ways to brake the system with or with out the
luxury of technology but going real quick to what my point is that technology should be use in
school but restricted with calculation and on written papers that a rough draft should be turn in
then the following day a digital copy just in case the professor loses the original specially since
the penmanship is affected since more people are using computers to type their homework and
submitting it online to the profiles of the professors. At the end the student won't know how to
wright and how to calculate with out using a calculator. So by having people agents and towards
the usage of technology. So to have people agents the usage Of technology supports my
argument ether way if the side that supports the usage of technology and the ethics that show the
proper moral of a student or the ached that look for the Benicia of the general public. In the
school district I use to attend the top people working for the district ended up with embezzlement
since they keep the money from the district and reduce the funding of programs troughs the
district. They ended a trio program that help me to get to collage( university) to make matters
worse they are trying to close two schools just to keep there fat pay checks with out losing a
single penny. With out the moral, ethics of each and every student need is that they must first
think of the benefit of the people rather than them self and how to skip to the easy way out and
the fasted way to get them selfs what they what with out the struggle.
So in conclusion that the benefit of technology , ethics and the morality of a student and
even a professor are in portent since we Shang a better future for our kids and a better place were

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to live with out the thought that they are people in real life that are just looking for the best way
that they could go on with there life and get it with out any struggle. It affects those that earn a
lot less specially those that immigrated and are looking for a better cuter for there family. Real
honest work that benefits all and not having congress men that are in there chair only for money.
If you look at there spending money and how they go to training they spend million of
dollars tax dollars themselves the only reason they allowed Obama to be in the office was that he
agree not to remove the budget that they have work to keep for themselves. So one must see that
not everything is about themselves is about helping other and that's why I ague for a more
humanistic way of learning, although a lot of people Lear by interacting a lesson of the real
world is never forgetting. Ether way it's my opinion and my belief by we should remember how
to learn in case of the verge of humanities extinction.

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References
Anne Colby and William Sullivan, in their article in the July 2008 Journal of Engineering
Education, Ethics Teaching in Undergraduate Engineering Education, identified three
common approaches to teaching engineering ethics as outlined by Joseph Herkert in
2002:
Baillie, C. & Pawley, A. & Riley, D.(2008). Engineering and Social Justice: In the University and
Beyond. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. Retrieved May 5, 2015, from Project
MUSE database.
Davis, M. (1991). Thinking Like an Engineer: The Place of a Code of Ethics in the Practice of a
Profession. In Philosophy & Public Affairs (2nd ed., Vol. 20, pp. 150-167). Hoboken,
New Jersey: WILEY.
" Keynote Address ." Emerging Technologies and Ethical Issues in Engineering: Papers from a
Workshop, October 14-15, 2003. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2004.
Schinzinger, Roland, and Mike W. Martin. Introduction to Engineering Ethics. Boston: McGraw Hill,
2000. Print.