Prompt#2 Ethics of Chemical Engineering

Here are ethics code of chemical engineering from AlChe(America Institution of Chemical Engineering)

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• Being honest and impartial and serving with fidelity their employers, their clients, and the public;
• Striving to increase the competence and prestige of the engineering profession;
• Using their knowledge and skill for the enhancement of human welfare.

About the first code, I actually have never thought about it before. I always thought engineers just need focus on how to operate all kinds of projects and consider this ethic code as a business field code. However, after pondering, our engineers are indeed service to our employers and clients. They pay money for us. As pay back, we need satisfy their demand. Just like a equal deal. We cannot receive their money or other form of support but do nothing.

The second code I think it is obvious one. Every engineer will agree with that. Once our engineers choose enter a certain field, it means we always need work on this field and dedicate ourselves in this field. It including doing a lot of calculations, researches and tests again and again to prove the our project. As a whole, if each engineer do some contribution on his or her project, then the entire engineer filed will be promoted.

Also, the goal of us is not just to make money, we also should take consider from the human welfare aspect. In fact, our engineers constantly to enhance our human welfare. Take the most common example, cell phone. In the past, the communicate way between each person is much hard than now. People cannot contact with a person in anytime or anywhere. But now, with the development of engineering filed, especially the computer engineering filed, the popularizing rate of cell phone almost approach 100%. Besides, cell phone right now is become a part of our life, people also can treat cell phone as a entertaining device and work tool. It truly makes people's life much convenience.