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Engineering Code Of Ethics Prevents Catastrophes
The IIE, like all the other engineering societies, has rules or
canons to guide its members to act in a professional and ethical
way. The IIE code of ethics is composed of two parts: the
fundamental principles and the fundamental canons. There are four
fundamental principles and seven fundamental canons all of which
are inspired from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology (ABET) code of ethics. The IIE code of ethics holds all the
industrial engineers (IE) to high professional and moral standards for
example it pushes all the IEs for a life long learning to increase the
prestige and the competence of the engineering profession. It also
holds the IEs to paramount the health, safety and welfare of the
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public, to deny association with suspicious organization and only
release public statements in a truthful manner.
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The IIE code of ethics is very similar to the NSPE one, since
both of them hold the same fundamental canons. However the NSPE
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code of ethics goes more in depth in explaining the appropriate
professional conducts behind each of these canons. The NSPE code
is composed of 80% of prohibitive rules that warns the engineers of
unethical conducts and their implications. However both codes did
not discuss or approached poorly other fundamental issues faced by
engineers nowadays. Neither the NSPE nor the IIE discussed the
problem of forced labor. In fact, many US companies are moving
abroad to benefit from cheaper workforce. These decisions are
sometimes taken by engineers to save money and to have
competitive edge on other companies. However, these practices
hurt people including children in other countries forced to work long
hours, for a low wage and dangerous work conditions.
Both the NSPE and IIE code of ethics did not discuss
extensively the environmental challenges faced by the engineers of
today. During the last century, the environment was not important in
the engineering designs, which caused great harm to nature.
Recently all the governments around the world issued regulations to
limit the effect of the industry on the environment and unfortunately
the engineering code of ethics dont elaborate on this point.
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ethics. The incompetence of the engineers leading the Macondo
project caused a chain of improper decision that lead to a largescale catastrophe. Even though third parties warned the team of
danger of using fewer centralizers and weaker concrete mix during
the drilling process, the BP engineers preferred cost savings on the
safety of public. The microscopic vision and normalizing of deviance
lead the BP team to conduct in an irresponsible manner.
Iskander El Amri
ENGR 482-928
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Iskander El Amri
ENGR 482-928
Short paper 2
Bibliography
"Code of Ethics." Code of Ethics. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.