Engineers, Engineering and Ethics

The prioritisation by engineers of technical ingenuity over ethical responsibility has become mirrored in public perception engineers are often perceived as being primarily technically inventive nerds or geeks. As a result, their positive contribution to the wellbeing of persons and communities is often poorly appreciated. Such misunderstanding is especially unfortunate when it influences the views of 

Engineering Ethics, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04096-7 l, Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 

Fortunately, not all perceptions of engineers are so negative. Consider the following quotation from a major work of the novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

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