GE2025 Professional Ethics in Engineering Two Marks with Answers - All Units

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    Anna University , Chennai
    Department of B.E-Electronics and Communication Engg
    Seventh Semester
    GE2025 Professional Ethics in Engineering 

    (Regulation 2008) 

    (Common to B.E-Automobile Engg , B.E-Civil Engineering , B.E-Computer Science and Engg , B.E-Electrical and Electronics Engg , B.E-Electronics and Instrumentation Engg , B.E-Instrumentation and Control Engg, B.E-Marine Engineering, B.E-Mechanical Engineering, B.E-Production Engineering, B.E-BioMedical Engg, B.Tech-Chemical Engineering , B.Tech-Information Tech)

    UNIT – I 

    ENGINEERING ETHICS
    1. Define Ethics?
    • Study of right or wrong.
    • Good and evil.
    • Obligations & rights.
    • Justice.
    • Social & Political deals.

    2. Define Engineering Ethics?
    • Study of the moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations engaged in engineering / profession.
    • Study of related questions about the moral ideals, character, policies and relationships of people and corporations involved in technological activity.
    • Moral standards / values and system of morals.

    3. What is the need to study Ethics?
    • To responsibly confront moral issues raised by technological activity.
    • To recognize and resolve moral dilemma.
    • To achieve moral autonomy.

    4. Differentiate Moral and Ethics?
    MORAL:
    • Refers only to personal behavior.
    • Refers to any aspect of human action.
    • Social conventions about right or wrong conduct.
    ETHICS:
    • Involves defining, analyzing, evaluating and resolving moral problems and developing moral criteria to guide human behavior.
    • Critical reflection on what one does and why one does it.
    • Refers only to professional behavior.
    5. What is the method used to solve an Ethical problem?
    • Recognizing a problem or its need.
    • Gathering information and defining the problem to be solved or goal to be achieved.
    • Generating alternative solutions or methods to achieve the goal.
    • Evaluate benefits and costs of alternate solutions.
    • Decision making & optimization.
    • Implementing the best solution.

    6. What are the Senses of Engineering Ethics?
    • An activity and area of inquiry.
    • Ethical problems, issues and controversies.
    • Particular set of beliefs, attitudes and habits.
    • Morally correct.

    7. Differentiate Micro-ethics and Macro-ethics?
    Micro-ethics : Deals about some typical and everyday problems which play an important role in the field of engineering and in the profession of an engineer.
    Macro-ethics : Deals with all the societal problems which are unknown and suddenly burst out on a regional or national level.

    8. What are the three types of Inquiry?
    • Normative Inquiry – Based on values.
    • Conceptual Inquiry – Based on meaning.
    • Factual Inquiry – Based in facts.

    9. What are the sorts of complexity and murkiness that may be involved in moral situations?
    • Vagueness
    • Conflicting reasons
    • Disagreement

    10. What are the steps in confronting Moral Dilemmas?
    • Identify the relevant moral factors and reasons.
    • Gather all available facts that are pertinent to the moral factors involved.
    • Rank the moral considerations in order of importance as they apply to the situation.
    • Consider alternative courses of actions as ways of resolving dilemma, tracing the full
    implications of each.
    • Get suggestions and alternative perspectives on the dilemma.
    • By weighing all the relevant moral factors and reasons in light of the facts, produce a
    reasoned judgment.

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