Engineering Ethic and Science and Technology Ethic

Tokyo Institute of Technology
edx.org course


Ethics originally mean living well, and thinking about well-being to act actually. not only for yourself,  but also someone bigger than you, such as organizations and society.
-Mr. Kano

志向倫理

予防倫理

In English:

• Extroversion according to Carl Jung means enjoying the company of others and energized by interactions with other people.
• Introversion means shy person.
• Withering means intended to humiliate someone.
• Stakeholder means a person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business.

 With this ethics, it is simply implying "We will never wrong if we do the right thing"

Grand Challenges for engineers as oriented ethics

"Grand Challenges for Engineering  is a project run by the Academy where they seek to clarify what exactly the most serious and important tasks that engineers have to solve are."

Fudano's Principle for Ethical Issues

1. TIMEFRAME
2. SPACE
3. RELATIONSHIP

Mr. Boisjoly
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Roger Mark Boisjoly was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger the day before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986.

HONDA motors

Building a project that about the roles of an engineer to the society.

October 1976 Honda CVCC engine comply with the requirement of the Muskie Act to reduce 90% the harmful substance in car exhaust in 5 years time. Honda was a small company back then and achieve the requirement despite the big three automobile company and share the technology to other automakers in an initiative to reduce emission.

Professor Kuroki Toshio, who writes various books about research misconduct. The reason for withdrawal is research misconduct.

Definition of Misconduct from 2000

“Fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism (FFP) in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or reporting research results”

What is FFP? (as defined by C. Whitbeck)

• Fabrication is “Making up important information including data and experiments when proposing, conducting, or reporting research.”
• Falsification is “changing or misrepresenting important information including data and experiments, for example, oneʼs qualifications or performance.”
• Plagiarism is “claiming that the work or ideas of others are oneʼs own.”

Specific Misconduct (MEXT, 2014)

(1) Fabrication: Making up nonexistent data, research results, etc.

(2) Falsification: Changing research materials, devices, and processes to render data and the results of research into something untrue.

(3) Plagiarism: Appropriation of the ideas, analytical methods, data, research results, articles, or terminology of other research without the approval or appropriate attribution of the researcher.


The characteristic of the code of conduct is that how to act in PLACE science situation to make it change the situation to CUDOS is clearly stated.