Ethical Dilemma in Engineering

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Ethical Dilemma in Engineering Table of Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Introduction PAGEREF _Toc18528457 \h 2Engineering Dilemma's Analysis PAGEREF _Toc18528458 \h 2The Dilemma between Technology and Public Safety PAGEREF _Toc18528459 \h 2Personal Ethical Statement PAGEREF _Toc18528460 \h 3Example of the Dilemma between Environment and Technology PAGEREF _Toc18528461 \h 3Team Ethics PAGEREF _Toc18528462 \h 3Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc18528463 \h 4Works Cited PAGEREF _Toc18528464 \h 5 Ethical Dilemma in Engineering Introduction With an enhanced emphasis on moral principles and ethical practices among society, companies are significantly accentuating on a particular issue. Management highly ruminates ethical practices to sustain the growth of an organization (Kolk 24). In the case of ethical engineering, engineers are associated with moral principles that they need to implicate while performing their duties at the workplace. The primary focus is on maintaining public safety; trustworthiness and competency level in jobs by avoiding deception at work (Barry and Joseph 676). By overviewing multiple articles, it determines that engineers face critical ethical dilemmas in their jobs, which are critically discussed in the report. The paper also clarifies the personal ethical statement and team ethics to work in a sophisticated manner in an engineering firm. Engineering Dilemma's Analysis Engineers face serious dilemmas in making practical decisions regarding the development by not violating moral values. The following case of Apple with the FBI highlights the ethical dilemma between technology and public safety. The Dilemma between Technology and Public Safety. In 2015, data management engineers in Apple face the moral dilemma between technology and public safety, where FBI stressed Apple to assist them in approaching terrorist who killed 14 people in San Bernardino by encrypting his iPhone data. In this case, engineers stuck in making a significant decision between national security and public data privacy. The CEO than opened the case against the FBI regarding public privacy, and would not help them to encrypt the code for managing public safety ethics (Lee and Or 2). The case is difficult to handle for engineers because they trapped in between the data privacy and the patriotism. Through technology, it is easy to access private data and can be used for any purpose, which violates the privacy concerns of the public. Therefore, I will take a similar step as Apple’s engineers took by not violating public safety and consider the universalism approach of ethics. In universalism, if the decision is morally wrong for one person than similar for another one (Shapcott 443). Consequently, I reflect universalism by not assisting the FBI to encrypt an individual’s data, which makes me trustworthy for other users that their data is protected in safe hands. Personal Ethical Statement My personal ethical statement highlights my moral values and beliefs that I implicate in different situations with honesty. I primarily prefer universalism approach in mult...