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Roles of An Engineer Related To Public Interest

Engineers have social responsibilities to ensure public safety and well-being. They must consider how their work impacts society and the environment. Some key responsibilities include conducting risk assessments, educating the public, designing sustainably, and providing unbiased expert advice. Being a professional engineer benefits society through challenging work that improves lives while also offering job satisfaction, variety, and financial security to the engineer.

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Roles of An Engineer Related To Public Interest

Engineers have social responsibilities to ensure public safety and well-being. They must consider how their work impacts society and the environment. Some key responsibilities include conducting risk assessments, educating the public, designing sustainably, and providing unbiased expert advice. Being a professional engineer benefits society through challenging work that improves lives while also offering job satisfaction, variety, and financial security to the engineer.

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Roles of an Engineer related to Public Interest & Social Impact

1. Engineering is the combination of science which is pursuit of knowledge in its purest


sense with concern to the needs of society.
2. A commitment from the engineering profession to place the public safety and interest
ahead of fall other considerations.
3. Engineers take into account and show due regard for the consequences of their conduct
for the well-being of others as well as the impact of their work on society and the
citizenry.
4. This requires the engineer to make determined efforts to discover all the relevant facts
concerning the design, development, and deployment and all of the possible outcomes of
the choices available that may positively and negatively affect or impact society and
citizenry.
Social responsibilities of engineers

Ensure the safety and well-being of the public.


Ensure that societys funds and resources concerning technology are well used.
Refusing to work on a particular project or for a particular company.
Speaking out publicly against a proposed project
Blowing the whistle on illegality or wrong-doing.
Commitment of risk assessment experts to ethical risk/safety assessments.
Voluntarily assume the task of educating the public about important consequences of

various technological and scientific developments.


Commitment of engineers to design and develop sustainable technologies.
Provide expert advice to non-experts.
Abiding by the principles of sustainable development when thinking about engineering

designs.
In engineering design, engineers have practiced social responsibility by applying factors
of safety to their designs and by building in redundancy.

Benefit for being professional engineers related to public and social

Job satisfaction

Variety of career opportunities


Challenging work
Intellectual development
Benefit society
Financial security
Prestige
Professional environment
Technological and scientific discovery
Creative thinking

Engineering is a great profession. There is a fascination of watching a figment of the


imagination emerge, through the aid of science, to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization
in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs home to men. Then it elevates the standards of
living and add to the comfort life. That is the engineers high privilege. To the engineer falls the
job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort and hope.

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