After reading both articles, the idea of creating a more sustainable, safe and healthy place besides mainly focusing on the technological development has caught my attention (National Academy of Engineering, par. 28, Feb 2008). This is the grand challenge in which engineering faces today. Engineering has always been one of the sectors that have contributed the most in civilization and globalization. However, sadly, ethics and moral values or- in short, engineering professionalism- has often being neglected.
One of the significance of engineering professionalism is to ensure that all benefits and gifts from the sectors are evenly distributed and contributed to all classes of community. Despite living in a globalised world, millions and billions of people are still suffering from food and water scarcity, basic medical care and communication accessibility. Ironically, the richer countries are given more attention into higher level of technology development. As engineers, they should look at a bigger picture that the world cannot be a sustainable place if the world is divided. Civilization is not complete without meeting the needs and goals of the world’s community. In this matter, it is where engineering professionalism comes in, playing an important role in producing ethical engineers.
The abandonment of engineering ethics would also result in environmental hazard, which is closely related to human health as well. The current state of our environment is partly due to the irresponsibility and unprofessional conduct of some engineers. Despite with all the environmental regulations, cheaper polluting technologies are preferable over the more costly and most importantly “greener” technologies (National Academy of Engineering, par. 21, Feb 2008). Some may debate that this matter can be solved by medication, but this is not the main concern. Instead, it is all about sensing the urgency and the need to care for the environment. If this norm is to continue on without any action taken, our earth is no longer in a healthy state to live in.
Regardless of how advance and complex are the technologies produced by engineering, without moral and ethical values, the contribution from this field is less desirable, for creating a safer , healthier and more sustainable place still remains the main concerns for all of us.
National Academy of Engineering. (2008, February). Introduction to the grand challenges of engineering. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9221/.aspx
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It is unexpected you will come out with the idea about ethical and moral values. Well,I think it is due to we tend to forgot the ethics. This is because most of the time we pay full attention in the development in engineering instead of moral.
You did pretty well in elaborating the urgency to produce ethical engineer. The flow is great.
In the first paragraph the sentence “this is the grand challenge in which engineering faces today”. The “in which” should be “which”. It replace the challenge in “face challenge”. In par.2 sent.2 accessibility may be inaccessibility. And in the last sentence of the par the clause “playing an important role ….engineers.” could not fit into this sentence. It occupies on position in the sentence. Hope I put it clearer in this way: “in this matter, this is where …comes in and plays an important ...engineers”. in the 3rd par the “despite with” should be “despite”. In the following sentence “cheaper techs are …the more costly and mostly importantly greener tech” the word “and” may be changed into “yet”.
The whole essay is well written and professional in the word selection. There are only some grammar mistakes. Note that when you write a longer sentence more mistake will occur.
this may be harsh but i hope it will be helpful.
Nice! You write such a nice essay! You choose a special angle to see this problem. Also, you present your ideas in details. It is easy to understand your opinions about ethic and moral values. You write a lot about your own thinkings. Although there are some mistakes and some sentences cannot express meaning obviously, this is still a good essay. There are a lot of things I can learn from it, such as vocabulary.
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