Ethics in Engineering Practice are based on mutual reliabilities among Engineers. Each Engineer believes to do best practice in any cases. However,to find a best practice and a best decision is not so easy. It is necessary to have many experiences and knowledges. Therefore,many present incidents and accidents are disucussed in this lesson. A virtual experience is very usuful method to make a individual philosophy for professional engineer.
1. To be able to answer about "Risk Management" with sufficiet responsibilities.
2. To be able to recognize and address ethical issues.
3. To have an opinion concerning "Safety Management" in the future Japanese society.
Engineering ethics ,Accountability,Social responsibility,Risk communication,Risk managemennt
Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Lectures and discussions by using actual samples
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Concept of engineering ethics | Social responsbility of engineer |
Class 2 | Accountability | Difference in recoginizing Hazard and Risk between specialist and general people |
Class 3 | Engineer's action and practice in Fukushima Disaster | Learn about reasons for Fukushima disaster |
Class 4 | Difference in Decision making between a general manager and an engineer | Responsibility of Engineer and the reflection of the engineer's idea to the corporate decision |
Class 5 | Disgraceful affairs of the enterprise and the dilemma of Engineer | Solution methods for engineer's Dilemma |
Class 6 | Comparison of Safety Management between Japan and Europe/US | Difference in recognizing Hazard and Risk in Japan and golobal standard |
Class 7 | Safety Management of Japan in the future | How we deal with rsik reduction and safety management under the situaton of the capability of the working site decreases |
Masayoshi Nakamura"Engineerring Ethics and Risk Management" Ohmsha 2012
Masayoshi Nakamura"Concept and Practice of Safety Management" Ohmsha 2013
・Intelligilibility of the lecture(80%)
・Reports(20%)
Concerning of safety management and risk management
Masayoshi.nakamura[at]jcom.zaq.ne.jp
After lecture
Similar courses in Innovation Management is targeting business person however this course is to help to make students establish own standard of ethics and responsiblity as an engineer.