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This book is a key introduction to ethics in engineering, providing professionals at all stages of their career with guidance on navigating the increasingly complex world of practising engineering ethically on an international scale.

Engineering professionals face a duty to uphold reliable and trustworthy behaviour when working across all disciplines and industries. Accuracy and rigour are essential parts of the modern workplace, and are increasingly of concern to practising engineers. Using case studies to highlight examples of issues within the workplace and how these can be appropriately handled, this book is an accessible tool through which engineers can gain confidence in dealing with ethical dilemmas in the workplace. Touching upon safety, risk, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and intellectual property, alongside sustainability and environmental matters, the book focuses on hot topics which are fast becoming day-to-day issues dealt with by engineers.

The book will be suitable for engineers of all disciplines, alongside students looking to become professional chartered engineers.

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Ethics for Engineers: A Brief Introduction

Anthony F. Bainbridge

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First edition published 2022
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2022 Anthony F. Bainbridge

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ISBN: 9781032076904 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781032077086 (pbk)
ISBN: 9781003208433 (ebk)

DOI: 10.1201/9781003208433

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DEDICATION
For my Grandson Leo
who will surely become more ethically aware
than his Grandfather has been

The most important human endeavour is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Albert Einstein

It is clear, then, . that it is not possible to be good in the strict sense without practical wisdom, or practically wise without moral virtue.

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, vi, 13

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instants truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor mens cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 1, ii.

Contents

This book began as a short series of lectures given to second-year engineering students in the Faculty of Engineering & Design at the University of Bath, as part of a Semester-2 course called Group Design & Professional Engineering Practice. The initial requirement was for a brief programme to introduce students to the statutory and regulatory aspects of engineering today and arose from a comment by an academic accreditation panel from the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

It became clear as the course developed, and as concerns grew in the world outside the classroom about the ethical basis of decision-making in business, that the course should draw attention to ethical concerns in product design. In any event it was also clear that the major issues with which I had to deal in the context of legislation, statute, and regulation raised fundamental ethical questions for the engineering profession outstandingly so in the matter of product safety.

At about the same time the UK Engineering Council, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and all the major professional bodies promulgated guidelines on the significance of ethical awareness in the world of practising engineers. The Engineering Council UK (EC UK) has published a 4th edition of UKSPEC, the standard which maps the competences registered engineers were expected to demonstrate, incorporating a clear requirement for registration candidates to have thought about the ethical practices around them and to be ready to observe, comment on, and, if necessary, amend their ethical behaviours.

The aim and content of the course then became: To provide students with knowledge of the ethical and statutory frameworks under which professional engineers operate. The course has run for over ten years, developing and broadening in the process. The task I always impose on myself never to teach the same course twice requires me to review constantly both my material and my delivery. Duty is a hard taskmistress.

This short book is not intended as anything more than a primer covering the main issues which inevitably arise in any discussion of ethics in the engineering context or indeed in any context involving the applied sciences. The reference list is full enough to lead interested readers into deeper analyses and wider applications. My context is engineering for the simple reason that I am an engineer with a long career which has enabled me to touch on many fields within the engineering profession. I have been proud to call the IET formerly the IEE my professional home for 60 years.

The reader will find many rhetorical questions throughout this work, for which I make no apology. Any account of the role of ethical attitudes in a professional context faces the massive issue that in the end we decide for ourselves. The matter cannot be treated like a topic in an engineering manual, where in general one expects to find clear pointers and recommendations. Instead we must find our own answers.

I have occasionally followed the established usage he and his in referring to the engineer in general. The welcome rise in the number of women engineers is already transforming the profession, and this process will surely continue; but I am uncomfortable with the use of they to cover single members of either gender, and I find s/he clumsy. I have tried to work around the problem, but may not always have succeeded in doing so.

(Dr) Anthony F. Bainbridge
Part-time Teaching Fellow, University of Bath
April 2021

I am grateful to Dr Adrian Evans, Head of Department, and to my colleagues, Dr Francis Robinson and Dr Steve Pennock of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Bath, who, stepping into the unknown, invited me to create and deliver the course in 2011; for supporting me in my role and for substantial help, advice, and tolerance as I found my way around the departmental and university processes and procedures. Their welcome has enabled me to pace the lecture theatres of the University of Bath for many years. I have of course learned much from the insights of many students expressed after lectures or in their assignment reports.

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