1400111011 Introduction To Engineering And Ethics Lecture 8 PDF

Lecture8 TruthandTruthfulness 1400111011 Introduction to Engineering and Ethics Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Trust and Reliability in Engineering In a world increasingly reliant on specialized knowledge, trust in engineers is paramount. This presentation expl...

Lecture8 TruthandTruthfulness 1400111011 Introduction to Engineering and Ethics Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Trust and Reliability in Engineering In a world increasingly reliant on specialized knowledge, trust in engineers is paramount. This presentation explores the ethical foundations of trust in engineering, focusing on honesty, confidentiality, intellectual property, expert witnessing, public communication, and conflicts of interest. Virtue of Honesty Respect for Persons Honesty is a fundamental virtue in Dishonesty undermines the moral engineering. It requires engineers to agency of individuals by preventing be truthful and to avoid deception, them from making informed even when no one is watching. It’s a decisions. It violates their autonomy character trait that’s deeply and ability to exercise free will in ingrained and guides actions. their choices. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Forms of Dishonesty Lying Deliberate Deception Lying involves intentionally Deliberate deception involves misleading others about one’s conveying false or misleading expertise or the value of information. It’s a direct act of products, even without deception. directly lying. Withholding Information Failure to Seek Truth Withholding information can An honest engineer is not just be deceptive by omitting someone who avoids lying but crucial details that others also actively seeks out the would reasonably expect to truth, even if it’s inconvenient know. or uncomfortable. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Dishonesty in Research and Testing Falsification of Data Fabrication of Data Plagiarism Distorting data by Involves inventing data Appropriating the smoothing out or reporting results of work of others without irregularities or experiments that never proper permission or presenting only occurred. This is a credit. It’s a form of favorable data. This serious ethical theft and undermines can involve excluding violation with the integrity of relevant information or potentially harmful intellectual property. misrepresenting consequences. results. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Protecting Intellectual Property Trade Secrets Patents Confidential formulas, Government-issued documents granting exclusive patterns, or information used rights to use, make, and sell an to gain a competitive invention for a specified advantage. period. Trademarks Copyrights Words, phrases, or symbols Protect the original expression used to identify and of creative works, such as distinguish goods or services. books, music, and software. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Confidentiality in Engineering Client Confidentiality Public Safety vs. Line-Drawing Method Engineers have an Confidentiality This method helps obligation to protect When public safety is determine the sensitive information at risk, the obligation boundaries of shared by clients or to protect the public permissible and discovered during work may override client impermissible actions done for them. confidentiality. in complex situations involving confidentiality. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Defining Whistle-Blowing Employee or Former Significant Moral Problem Employee The information conveyed The whistleblower is an relates to a serious moral employee or former employee problem that affects public of the organization. safety, ethics, or legality. Information Conveyed Outside Approved Channels The whistleblower conveys The whistleblower bypasses information about the moral internal channels or acts problem to someone with the against pressure to remain authority to address it. silent. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Moral Guidelines for Whistle-blowing Serious Harm 1 The potential harm must be significant and likely to occur. Internal Effort 2 The whistleblower must have exhausted all reasonable internal channels. Documentation 3 The whistleblower must have gathered credible evidence supporting their claims. Good Faith 4 The whistleblower must act in good faith, motivated by a genuine concern for the public good 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Protecting Whistle-blowers Legal Protections Professional Support Public Awareness Government Engineering Raising public awareness employees and, to a associations and of the importance of lesser extent, private employee groups play whistleblowing and the sector employees are a vital role in providing need to protect protected by laws advice and legal whistleblowers is crucial against retaliation for assistance to in creating a culture of reporting violations of whistleblowers and in accountability and safety and holding corporations promoting ethical environmental accountable for practices in engineering. regulations. retaliatory actions. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç Beyond Whistle-blowing Open Communication Ethics Review Professional Society Committees Involvement Organizations should Establishing Engineers should have foster open independent ethics communication the right to seek review committees with confidential advice channels and create the authority to from their professional mechanisms for investigate complaints societies' ethics addressing ethical and make recommendations to committees when they concerns internally, management can feel their concerns are reducing the need for provide an avenue for not being adequately whistleblowing. resolving ethical issues. addressed internally. 1400111011 | Introduction to Engineering and Ethics | 2024-2025 Fall | Asst. Prof. Mete Öğüç