ENGINEERING ETHICS & COMPUTER LAWS

The course includes moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations involved in
engineering. It will focus on the study of the code of ethics, conflict of interest, safety of risk trade-off in
design, confidentiality, behavior in the work place, intellectual property, patents, trade secrets and
contemporary issues in engineering.

Topics
1. Principles of Ethics - http://www2.ece.ohio-
state.edu/~passino/ECE3080Lectures/Lecture2Codes.ppt.pdf
2. Professional Ethics https://www.slideshare.net/SethuramanPlayMankatha/professional-ethics-
15084927?from_action=save
http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10603/8671/10/10_chapter%206.pdf
a. Codes of Conduct
b. Moral Responsibility
3. Ethical issues https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/more/engineering-ethics/engineering-
ethics-cases/
a. Professional Responsibility
b. Health and Safety
c. Privacy
d. Security
4. Philippine IT Laws and policies
a. E-commerce Law (RA 8792) - https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2000/06/14/republic-
act-no-8792-s-2000/
b. Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (RA 8293) -
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1997/06/06/republic-act-no-8293/
c. Optical Media Act of 2003 (RA 9239) -
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2004/02/10/republic-act-no-9239/
d. Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173) -
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2012/08/15/republic-act-no-10173/
e. Department of Information and Communications Technology Act of 2015 (RA 10844) -
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2016/05/23/republic-act-no-10844/
f. Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175) -
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2012/09/12/republic-act-no-10175/
g. Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009 (RA 9995) -
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2009/11/17/republic-act-no-9775-s-2009/
5. Transnational Issues
a. Cybercrimes https://www.slideshare.net/Mazhar_Nazik/cyber-crime-60577247
b. E-commerce https://www.slideshare.net/amitmitkar/ethics-in-e-commerce-n-it
c. International Agreements https://www.slideshare.net/emolagi/legal-ethical-professional-
issues
6. Social issues
 a. Digital divide, equity and Access https://www.slideshare.net/kegill/access-digital-divide
b. Online Community and Social Networking
https://www.slideshare.net/StephanieAlmeida/online-social-networking-presentation
c. Nanoethics and other Emerging Issues
https://www.slideshare.net/KentBusinessSchool/paper-4-ethical-environment-of-
nanoscience-chunliang-4684190
https://prezi.com/qgwqr9ebs3w8/nanotechnology-ethical-and-other-emerging-issue/

References
 Engineering Ethics by Fietnerman, Harris, and Martin – (https://books.google.com.ph/books?
id=GgHzxP7xPAYC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Engineering+ethics+by+fietnerman&source=bl&ots
=PXXiKsRXB6&sig=ACfU3U2M8RS_s1fLSEtFeSIccrlwTkjW7w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicrf-
s2a7pAhWhxYsBHTx2CVUQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Engineering%20ethics%20by
%20fietnerman&f=false)
 Computer Law by Reed – (https://epdf.pub/download/computer-law.html)
 Online Resources