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Engineering And Social Responsibility

GROUP 6 • • • • • • • •

Members: Alfredo Bunag Darwin Cruz Dennise Daniel Allein de Jesus Jacob Dionisio Renz Dulay Venus Emocling

“Engineering elevates the standard of living and adds comfort in life.”

– Herbert Hoover

Roles of Engineers for a Better Society

Role of Engineers in Society • Understanding the material progress of the world

Role of Engineers in Society • Social needs

Role of Engineers in Society • Social Understanding

Social Responsibility? • To deliver sustainable engineering system • To provide low carbon energy technologies • To provide robust physical infrastructure for protection against calamities

Client & Engineer’s Priority Ranking 1. 2. 3. 4.

Safety Economics Reliability Security

1. 2. 3. 4.

Safety Reliability Security Economics

Client’s Priority Ranking 1. 2. 3. 4.

Safety Reliability Security Economics

Ethics of IEEE

• To accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with safety health and welfare of public to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or environment.

Ethics of IEEE

• To improve the understanding of technology and its appropriate applications and potential consequences.

CODE OF ETHICS FOR ENGINEERS

• Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. • Perform services only in areas of their competence. • Issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner.

CODE OF ETHICS FOR ENGINEERS • Act for each employer or client as faithful agents or trustees. • Avoid deceptive acts. • Conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession.

Conclusion • Engineers have responsibility to think about interaction between technology and society. • Engineers are supposed to think about the effects of their own actions and creations especially if they affect society.

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