1. Conceptual clarifications needed
For the past ten years or so in France, the expressions "engineering ethics" or "engineering ethics" have appeared in specialist literature, conference titles and course titles. Outside the circles that produce them, these expressions arouse curiosity, astonishment and sometimes suspicion. The English equivalent, engineering ethics, poses no comparable problem in academic or engineering circles. It refers to a field of thought and practice that has developed since the early twentieth century through codes that are now familiar to all North American graduates, but also in certain European countries, notably the Netherlands and Spain, and in South America. In the USA, the words "ethics" and "engineering" (or "engineers") have been associated for 40 years in dictionary articles on philosophy and applied ethics, and on dozens of textbook covers for engineering students. The earliest such textbooks...
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Bibliography
Websites
French ISO 26000 Observatory
https://www.iso.org/fr/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html
UN Sustainable Development Goals (2017)
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/fr/objectifs-de-developpement-durable/
...Standards and norms
- Code de déontologie des ingénieurs du Conseil national des ingénieurs et scientifiques de France - CNISF - (1996)
- Charte d'éthique de l'ingénieur - IESF - (2001)
- White Paper – Part B. The engineer's ethical responsibility in complex systems - IESF - (2017)
- Charte de l'Ingénieur et du scientifique responsable (ISR) - IESF - (2021)
- Lignes directrices relatives à la responsabilité sociétale...
Regulations
Decree of May 25, 2016 setting the national framework for training and the procedures leading to the award of the national doctoral diploma.
DGT circular no. ° 2008-22 on ethical charters, whistle-blowing procedures and internal regulations, Ministry of Labor, Social Relations and Solidarity, November 19, 2008.
Law no. 2001-420...
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French Association of Engineers and Scientists (IESF)
National Engineers Bureau (BNEI)
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Statistical and economic data
Observatoire des ingénieurs – 2014 survey of French engineers and scientists
http://www.cti-commission.fr/IMG/pdf/enquete_iesf_2014.pdf
Conférence des directeurs des écoles d'ingénieurs françaises (CDEFI) – Engineering students and the ethics of their profession (2010)...
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