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Engineering ethics is quite a bit more than just "don't steal".

• triceratops 3y ago
  This particular case involved stealing. Engineering ethics is knowing what's right or wrong when performing engineering work. Children develop a pretty decent sense of right and wrong. It isn't rocket science. A 22-year old ordered by their manager to falsify data in their first month on the job knows it's wrong. They aren't going to refuse because they took some course in college. Whether or not they do it is more likely a function of how prevalent that behavior is in the organization, how often it's caught, and how publicly it's punished.
  • GabeIsko 3y ago
    I think we should stop framing this as ethics. TCS tried to get the best outcome for their client. CSC decided the client should suffer because they didn't win the re-compete. That's basically retaliation. Also a Texas Jury deciding that an Indian company should give 210M to an American company? If you take a step back, none of this is about ethics. Now, with this kind of money and scrutiny you have to follow the letter of the law, whether it is productive or not. TCS should know better. But we can't pretend that this is about ethics.
    • splitstud 3y ago
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  • dotnet00 3y ago
    A 22-year old ordered by their manager to falsify data knows it's wrong, but doesn't know how to handle the situation. The point of ethics courses is to teach students how to handle situations like that, else they'll just continue to be exploited until they learn how to handle things on their own.