EG 2401 Engineering Professionalism

Additional Notes IV (Professionalism & Ethics Issues --- yet

more various other newer technology developments where
ethics
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T.H.Lee, B.A. ((Hons I)) Cambridge;
g M.Engrg
g g NUS; Ph.D. Yale

NUS Faculty of Engineering

Professor, Dept of ECE, NUS; Professor in the Graduate School, NUS NGS
Dy Editor-in-Chief, IFAC Mechatronics Int Jnl
ELELEETH@nus.edu.sg
Aug/Sep2015

THL1.1 SomeBackground&Preliminaries

engineers [need to] realize how their technical work has

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can affect public health and safety and can influence
business practices and even politics.

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systems in our
every-day life
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these are matters
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THL1.2 WhyStudyEngineeringEthics?
[fromLecture1]

Engineeringismanagingtheunknown:Youmusttestyourdesign
Engineering is managing the unknown: You must test your design
asthoroughlyastimeandresourcespermittoensurethatit
operatessafelyandasplanned.
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Engineeringismanagingtheunknown: Also,youmustuseyour
creativitytoattempttoforsee thepossibleconsequencesofyour
work.

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THL1.5 Summary(I)

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