How to Deal with Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice

Abstract

With the accelerated pace of engineering and technological innovation, the complexity of engineering and the expanding scope of engineering influence, engineering ethics in the future will become an important issue that must be solved by the main body of engineering practice, and for this reason, the development of engineering ethics education will become an important task for the cultivation of high-quality and excellent engineering talents in the future. The benefits of engineering to human beings are self-evident, however, there are two sides of things, on the one hand, engineering will promote the development of the country, social progress, and bring human beings a more convenient living environment; on the other hand, unreasonable engineering will also bring harm to human beings and hinder the development of society. Therefore, how to prevent engineering risks, maximize the positive benefits of engineering and reduce the negative impacts of engineering is an issue we should pay attention to. Since engineering safety accidents often contain ethical factors, there is a strong necessity and urgency to analyze and prevent them from the perspective of ethics in the study of engineering risks. This paper describes how to deal with ethical problems in engineering practice in five aspects: the importance and prevalence of ethical problems in engineering, the identification of ethical problems in engineering, the exploration of methods for solving ethical problems in engineering, the response to the challenges of ethical problems in engineering, and the education and guidance of engineering ethics.