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2. An introduction to ethical reflection through accidents and other scandals
The field of engineering ethics has developed in a context of increasing questioning of the equation technical progress = social progress. But it first developed in countries with a formal deontology and rhetoric that defined the activity of engineers as intrinsically beneficial to Humanity (§ 3.3.2 ). In the USA, the ethical training of engineers was encouraged in the late 70s by the National Science Foundation, which supported the publication of the first...
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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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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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