Welcome to HUM1021

Dr.R.Nandhini
SCSE
This course will cover
• Gandhian Policy
• Self vs common interest
• Violence
• Corruption
• Electoral malpractice
• White collar crimes
• Tax evasion
This course will cover
• Unfair trade practices
• Alcoholism
• Smoking
• Suicide
• Drug abuse
• Dishonesty
• Cyber crimes
• Tech addiction
Class is about
• Activity based Learning
• Role play
• Drama
• Short films
• Poster presentation
• Collage work inside the class
Social values-Discussion Topics
• Smoking
• Child labor
• Honor killing
• Tobacco
• Untouchability
• Migration in India
• Migrant construction worker
• Stress in students
• Drug Addiction
Example

• Garbage collection
• Pollution free Delhi
• TASMAC
• Corruption
• Girls child safety
• Ragging
• Social networking
• Arms dealing
• Cyber crime
Module 1-Personal Ethics

Ethics and Values

meaning and significance
Understanding Self
Steps in Ethical Decision Making
Ethical issues faced by student community
Module 2-Social Ethics

Social Consciousness and Responsibility

Individual Interest Versus Society’s Interest
Ethical and Societal values according to the
Indian and International perspectives
Understanding of Justice, Rule of Law, and
Democracy.
Fundamental duties of the citizens. Current
Social Issues.
Module3
Professional Ethics:
Profession and professionalism
Professional Responsibilities and Issues
Code of Conduct
Core values at work place
Work life balance.
Grading

• Reporting of unethical issues with proof ( Whistle blowing),

• poster presentations
• short film making
• street play
• group discussion
• debate
• projects
• TEE
 HONESTY & INTEGRITY FOR
ENGINEERS (ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL)
WHY IS HONESTY RELEVANT FOR ENGINEERS?
• The public trusts professionals to provide information that is as
complete and accurate as possible.
• However, it is not always obvious what information you will need to
disclose, and to whom, particularly when you have conflicting
obligations to different groups. You may need to make a judgment
about what you are required to do in order to satisfy the principle of
professional honesty.
• Honesty is not simply a matter of not lying: you may at times need to
disclose information which has not been requested directly, and
which in some cases people may not want to hear.
TYPES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
• Cheating on exams
• Copying another’s work as one’s own
• Misrepresenting data in reports and projects
Dishonesty in Engineering Research and
Testing
• Trimming
• Cooking
• Forging
• Plagiarism
Dishonesty in Engineering Research and
Testing
• Trimming
Smoothing of irregularities to make the data look
very accurate and precise

Original Data *
*
Trimmed to line +
*
Y ++
*
+ *
*
+ *

X
Dishonesty in Engineering Research and
Testing
• Cooking
Retaining only those results that fit the theory
and discarding others

*
* Discarded data
* *
Y * *
* *
* * * *
* *

X
Dishonesty in Engineering Research and
Testing
• Forging
Inventing some or all of the research data that
are reported, and even reporting experiments
to obtain those data that were never
performed
Dishonesty in Engineering Research and
Testing
• Plagiarism
Use of the intellectual property of others
without proper permission or credit
• Written works
• Internet
TYPES OF PLAGIARISM
• Stealing material from another source and passing it off as
their own, e.g.
• buying a paper from a research service, essay bank or term
paper mill (either pre-written or specially written),
• copying a whole paper from a source text without proper
acknowledgement,
• submitting another student’s work, with or without that
student’s knowledge (e.g. by copying a computer disk),
• Submitting a paper written by someone else (e.g. a peer or
relative) and passing it off as their own.
• Copying sections of material from one or more source texts,
supplying proper documentation (including the full reference)
but leaving out quotation marks, thus giving the impression that
the material has been paraphrased rather than directly quoted.
• Paraphrasing material from one or more source texts without
supplying appropriate documentation.
CAUSES OF PLAGIARISM
• The students are not well informed and are uncertain about the
convention of academic referencing.
• Misunderstanding about what constitutes plagiarism is reported as
one of the main contributing factors for students to commit
plagiarism
• Students are not aware that copying and lifting information are
immoral and unacceptable thus they plagiarize without any intention
to deceive
CONSEQUENCES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
• The consequence of unethical behavior is immediately
apparent at the collegiate level: students misrepresent
their ability and potentially receive an advantage over
their peers.
• However, the longer-term consequences are cause for
even greater concern. A student who has managed to
cheat his way through college not only presents a false
impression of himself to a future employer, but may also
have such a poor sense of moral obligation and
responsibility that he cannot be expected to act ethically
as a professional engineer.
• In this case much more than the integrity of the academic
process is at stake because engineer are responsible for
the physical welfare of the consumers of the products
they design and manufacture.
CAUSES OF PLAGIARISM
• The students are not well informed and are uncertain about the
convention of academic referencing.
• Misunderstanding about what constitutes plagiarism is reported as
one of the main contributing factors for students to commit
plagiarism
• Students are not aware that copying and lifting information are
immoral and unacceptable thus they plagiarize without any intention
to deceive
CONSEQUENCES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
• The consequence of unethical behavior is immediately
apparent at the collegiate level: students misrepresent
their ability and potentially receive an advantage over
their peers.
• However, the longer-term consequences are cause for
even greater concern. A student who has managed to
cheat his way through college not only presents a false
impression of himself to a future employer, but may also
have such a poor sense of moral obligation and
responsibility that he cannot be expected to act ethically
as a professional engineer.
• In this case much more than the integrity of the academic
process is at stake because engineer are responsible for
the physical welfare of the consumers of the products
they design and manufacture.
CONSEQUENCES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
• Correlations have been found between academic dishonesty and
shoplifting, risky driving, theft from employers, alcohol abuse, and
cheating on income taxes.
• Higher levels of academic dishonesty are producing professionals with
seriously compromised morals who are more likely to participate in
professional dishonesty.
Questions to consider
• Is lying always wrong?
• When is it okay to break the law? if ever?
• Who sets up the rules for what is right and wrong?
• Is every act selfish or is there true selflessness
• Is torture ever justified? If so when? if not why?
Ethics
• The word ‘ethics’ that is a good trend, issues of justice, equity, good
teaching.
• The word ‘values’ “ethics” comes from the Greek word ‘ethike’
(tekhne) concerning good behavior or conduct of a person in an
institution or community in the exercise of its functions, in public or
private institutions.
• Values are the foundation of life or national interests as dominating
the behavior of people, institutions, political parties in setting goals
for administrative or development of any nation
Ethics
• Ethics is often described as the science of morality
• Ethics behavior is that which is good.
Decision Making
• Decision making involves a great degree of value clarity, ethical
decision making involves more! Unlike certain financial, inventory and
production decisions, ethical decisions cannot be coded into digital
machines. They require critical thinking and evaluation.
scenario1
At a family dinner out, you use your corporate card since you forgot
your personal card.
• When it comes time to do your expenses you,
• Put in a client’s name whose account has plenty of cash in it.
• Mark as a personal expense and reimburse your employer
• Ask your boss to approve it because with all the late nights you work
you have missed a lot of meals with your family
scenario2
• In a public restaurant you overhear colleagues discussing confidential
client information and mention client by name. Would you
• Ignore it
• Talk with your colleagues about your concern and leave at that
• Report them to your supervisor.