VALUES
& ETHICS IN PROFESSION
Credits- 3
Science, Technology
and Engineering as knowledge and as Social and Professional Activities
Effects of
Technological Growth:
- Rapid Technological growth and depletion of resources
- Reports of the Club of Rome : Limits of growth
- Sustainable Development
- Energy Crisis : Renewable Energy Resources
- Environmental degradation and pollution
- Eco-Friendly Technologies (EFT)
- Environmental Regulations : Environmental Ethics
- Appropriate Technology Movement of Schumacher & Later Developments
- Technology and developing notions
- Problems of Technology Transfer
- Technology Assessment Impact Analysis (Environment Impact Analysis-EIA)
- Human Operator in Engineering projects and industries
- Problems of man-machine interaction
- Impact of assembly line and automation
- Human centered Technology
Ethics of
Profession:
- Engineering profession: Ethical issues in Engineering practice
- Conflicts between business demands and professional ideals
- Social and ethical responsibilities of Technologists
- Codes of professional ethics
- Whistle blowing and beyond - Case studies
Profession and
Human Values:
- Values Crisis in contemporary society
- Nature of values: Value Spectrum of a Good Life
- Psychological values: Integrated personality- mental health
- Societal values: The modern search for a good society, justice, democracy, secularism, rule of law, values in Indian Constitution
- Aesthetic values: Perception and enjoyment of beauty, simplicity, clarity
- Moral and ethical values: Nature of moral judgements; canons of ethics; ethics of virtue; ethics of duty; ethics of responsibility
Suggested Books:
- Samita Manna & Suparna Chakraborti, Values and Ethics in Business and Profession, PHI, 2012
- Stephen H Unger, Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, New York 1994 (2nd Ed)
- Deborah Johnson, Ethical Issues in Engineering, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1991
- A N Tripathi, Human values in the Engineering Profession, Monograph published by IIM, Calcutta1996
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