Course11010509740 lectures
Ethics in Engineering Practice
Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay · IIT Kharagpur
About
Engineering as a profession is meant to serve the public by strictly adhering to codes of conduct and placing paramount the health, safety and welfare of public. However it raises few conflicting questions like : who is the public? Does it include future generation? Who decides what is best for public? Do engineers have managerial and technical responsibilities? What is the acceptable risk? Do Engineers have responsibilities towards the environment also? Engineering ethics is the study of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations engaged in engineering and the study of related questions about the moral ideals, character, policies and relationships of people and corporations involved in technological activity. To prepare students for their professional responsibilities as Engineers. To help them recognize and think through ethically significant problem situations that are common in Engineering and to evaluate the existing ethical standards for ENGINEERING Practice.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Any interested student
PREREQUISITES : Basic understanding of business managementl
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Being ethical is an integral part of being a good engineer. So this course will have strong industry support.
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 1 : Introduction to Ethical Reasoning and Engineering Ethics
- Lecture 2 : Introduction to Ethical Reasoning and Engineering Ethics (Contd.)
- Lecture 3 : Introduction to Ethical Reasoning and Engineering Ethics (Contd.)
- Lecture 4 : Professional Practice in Engineering
- Lecture 5 : Professional Practice in Engineering (Contd.)
Week 2
- Lecture 6 : Central Professional responsibilities of engineers
- Lecture 7 : Central Professional responsibilities of engineers (Contd.)
- Lecture 8 : Workplace Rights and Responsibilities
- Lecture 9 : Workplace Rights and Responsibilities (Contd.)
- Lecture 10 : Ethics as Design doing Justice to Moral Problems
Week 3
- Lecture 11 : Ethics as Design doing Justice to Moral Problems (Contd.)
- Lecture 12 : Intellectual Property Rights and Ethics
- Lecture 13 : Intellectual Property Rights and Ethics (Contd.)
- Lecture 14 : Trade related Intellectual Property Rights
- Lecture 15 : Trade related Intellectual Property Rights in India
Week 4
- Lecture 16 : A brief on Paris Convention, 1967 & The Berne Contract, 1971
- Lecture 17 : Computer Software and Digital Information
- Lecture 18 : Computer Software and Digital Information (Contd.)
- Lecture 19 : Engineers, Nuclear Testing and Weapons
- Lecture 20 : Engineers, Nuclear Testing and Weapons (Contd.)
Week 5
- Lecture 21 : Responsibility to Environment
- Lecture 22 : Responsibility to Environment (Contd.)
- Lecture 23 : Environmental Ethics and Spirituality
- Lecture 24 : Engineering as Social Experimentation
- Lecture 25 : Research Ethics
Week 6
- Lecture 26 : Research Ethics (Contd.)
- Lecture 27 : Engineers as Managers Consultants and Leaders
- Lecture 28 : Engineers as Managers Consultants and Leaders (Contd.)
- Lecture 29 : Engineers as Managers Consultants and Leaders (Contd.)
- Lecture 30 : Key Questions - Ethical Conduct of Engineers
Week 7
- Lecture 31 : Key Questions - Ethical Conduct of Engineers (Contd.)
- Lecture 32 : Key Questions - Central Professional Responsibilities of Engineers
- Lecture 33 : Key Questions - Central Professional Responsibilities of Engineers (Contd.)
- Lecture 34 : Key Questions - relating to Rights and Responsibilities regarding IPR
- Lecture 35 : Key Questions - relating to Rights and Responsibilities regarding IPR (Contd.)
Week 8
- Lecture 36 : Key Questions - relating to Rights and Responsibilities regarding IPR (Contd.)
- Lecture 37 : Key Questions - related to Engineers Rights and Duties & Ethics
- Lecture 38 : Key Questions - related to Engineers Rights and Duties & Ethics (Contd.)
- Lecture 39 : Leadership Styles & Ethical Conduct
- Lecture 40 : Leadership Styles & Ethical Conduct (Contd.)
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kharagpur
- Department
- Management
- Teacher
- Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Business and management
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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