Analysis of the Ethical Responsibility of Engineers

Abstract

Scientific and technological progress have not only promoted China’s economic development, but also exerted a far-reaching and extensive impact on China’s engineering construction. Engineers, who are core of engineering activities, play a key role as well as assume a major responsibility in the process of innovation and application of new technology. This paper points out that in the complex engineering situations, when engineers are facing the moral conflict, conflicts of interests, ethics contradiction, they should know how to be answerable to people’s safety, health and welfare, how to effectively regulate the conflict of interests between engineering communities, and how to settle down the contradiction between the practice of engineering and environmental protection. It argues that if engineers are to fulfill the ethical responsibility, such things must be done as the reconstruction of the relationship between them and employers, society, as well as nature.