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    Engineers have social responsibilities that mean (1) prioritizing public safety and interest over other obligations, and (2) considering how their work impacts society and citizens. This requires engineers to discover all relevant facts about potential outcomes and effects of their work. Examples of social responsibilities include ensuring safety and resources are well-used, refusing or speaking out against harmful projects, whistleblowing on illegality, and contributing to nonprofit work. Engineers are responsible for considering technology's societal impacts because they create technology and should consider the effects of their actions, especially if it impacts others.

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    Engineers have social responsibilities that mean (1) prioritizing public safety and interest over other obligations, and (2) considering how their work impacts society and citizens. This requires engineers to discover all relevant facts about potential outcomes and effects of their work. Examples of social responsibilities include ensuring safety and resources are well-used, refusing or speaking out against harmful projects, whistleblowing on illegality, and contributing to nonprofit work. Engineers are responsible for considering technology's societal impacts because they create technology and should consider the effects of their actions, especially if it impacts others.

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    Engineers have social responsibilities that mean (1) prioritizing public safety and interest over other obligations, and (2) considering how their work impacts society and citizens. This requires engineers to discover all relevant facts about potential outcomes and effects of their work. Examples of social responsibilities include ensuring safety and resources are well-used, refusing or speaking out against harmful projects, whistleblowing on illegality, and contributing to nonprofit work. Engineers are responsible for considering technology's societal impacts because they create technology and should consider the effects of their actions, especially if it impacts others.

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    Social Responsibilities of Engineers

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    Karthi Keyan
    Engineers have social responsibilities that mean (1) prioritizing public safety and interest over other obligations, and (2) considering how their work impacts society and citizens. This requires engineers to discover all relevant facts about potential outcomes and effects of their work. Examples of social responsibilities include ensuring safety and resources are well-used, refusing or speaking out against harmful projects, whistleblowing on illegality, and contributing to nonprofit work. Engineers are responsible for considering technology's societal impacts because they create technology and should consider the effects of their actions, especially if it impacts others.

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    What does having social responsibilities mean?

    It means a commitment from the engineering profession, and, by proxy, the individual engineers who belong to the profession, to place the public safety and interest ahead of all other considerations and obligations (with certain caveats to be explained later).

    It means that engineers take into account and show due regard for the consequences of their conduct for the wellbeing of others as well as for the impact of their work on society and the citizenry.
    This requires the engineer to make determined efforts to discover all of the relevant facts concerning the design, development, and deployment and all of the possible outcomes of the choices available that may positively and negatively affect/impact society and the citizenry

    Social Responsibilities of Engineers (Some Examples)


    Ensure the safety and well-being of the public Ensure that societys funds and resources concerning technology are well used Refusing to work on a particular project or for a particular company Speaking out publicly against a proposed project Blowing the whistle on illegality or wrong-doing Professional Societies obligation to provide protection for whistleblowers Individual and organizational concern about the impact of engineering projects on society Contributing ones services to worthy, non-profit groups and projects Engineering schools commitment to educating future engineers about their social responsibilities
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    Social Responsibilities of Engineers (Some Examples)


    Commitment of engineering professions and organizations to principles of social responsibility Commitment of risk assessment experts to ethical risk/safety assessments Actively promote the ethical development and use of technology Voluntarily assume the task of educating the public about important consequences of various technological and scientific developments Commitment of engineers to design and develop sustainable technologies Provide expert advice to non-experts Take part in democratic procedures for technology decision making and policy management Social activism of engineers in the public Interest Explicit care and concern about technologys impact on Nature and the Environment Abiding by the principles of sustainable development when thinking about engineering designs Abiding by the precautionary principle when thinking about engineering designs In engineering design, engineers have practiced social responsibility by applying factors of safety to their designs and by building in redundancy
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    Engineering Social Responsibility


    Why do engineers have the responsibility to think about the interaction of technology and society? One reason: Because engineers are the ones who create all of the technology Responsible moral beings are supposed to think about the effects of their own actions and creations especially if they impact others Possible response: but engineers and scientists, like professionals in general, are supposed to implement the goals of their employers and clients, not decide what those goals should be

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