Description
Learn about situations that might lead to ethical and legal issues and how to apply ethics, law, and sound judgment to decision making.Engineering work involves high levels of responsibility with satisfaction, profit, and can offer advancement from successful projects that meet needs of people and nature. However, engineering work also involves ethical and legal dilemmas that can cause loss of jobs, business, money, reputations, and licenses to practice. It can involve lawsuits, investigations, or official inquiries and, in extreme cases, indictments, trials, and convictions based on civil or criminal law. Most engineers do not experience such situations, but avoiding them requires knowledge, experience, and judgement. The maze of ethical and legal norms and rules arising in situations can be confusing, but engineers can be equipped with basic knowledge through a framework of situations, rules, and guidelines that will enable them to avoid mistakes and provide guidance to other stakeholders in the arenas where engineers practice. These involve a hierarchy from things that you must do to achieve compliance to those that you should do in areas of choice based on codes of ethics and situations where practitioners have discretion. Situations range from planning through implementation and regulation, and include activities of multiple players.
Date: 2024-04-18 Start Time: End Time:
Learning Objectives
Risk Framework for Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Engineers
• Ethical Situations in Engineering Practice
• Mistakes Relating to Workforce and the Public
• Mistakes With Economic, Environmental, and Social Consequences
• Other Dilemmas of Participants in Public Works Projects
Ethical and Legal Constraints on Engineering Practice
• Ethics, Morality, and Law in Engineering Situations
• Laws, Rules, Codes, and Standards Relating to Engineering Practice
• Codes of Ethics and Major Legal Controls on Projects
• Roles, Responsibilities, and Transparency in Projects
Common Ethical Situations Confronting Engineers
• Engineering Planning and Design Phases of Projects
• Construction, Manufacturing, Product Quality
• Operational Situations Affecting Public Health, Justice, and the Environment
• Other Ethical Situations Confronting Participants in Project Life Cycles
Codes of Engineering Ethics
• Typical Content
• Legal Standing
• Implementation Through Engineering Education
Examples of Common Ethical Situations Confronting Engineers
• Organizational Issues, Competencies
• Public Trust Situations
• Whistleblowing
• Management Situations and Favoritism
Guidelines for Navigating Situations to Achieve Favorable Outcomes
• Preparation to Confront Ethical and Legal Situations
• Setting Your Personal and Professional Compass
• Decision Making, Learning Lessons, and Providing Leadership
ENG ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.
Neil S. Grigg-Colorado State University
