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[–] 47 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Ethics is largely mandatory for engineering majors (source: am finishing my bachelor's in electrical engineering), but the first job or project you take will ask you to throw that out the window. (Source: family members who are also engineers)

There are two areas of safety considered: Operator/client safety, and regulatory compliance. All other safeguards are optional and ignoring them is encouraged.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As a civil engineer with only a tiny bit of experience cos I switched to software. That holds true. Environmental and other ethical concerns are not even an afterthought in vast majority of engineering projects.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As a civil engineer with only a tiny bit of experience cos I switched to software.

    Holy shit, I'm not the only one?!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I had very little ethics being taught in my academic career. Most of what i know is high school level philosophy (from a country that still used to care about that stuff but aiming to change it soon). I would have loved more humanity courses. On the other hand, if you had given me the choice between a course in my speciality and a humanity course, I would have chose the specialty one every time

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