“As engineers we have to work thinking in future generations, working long-term. Our professional procedures can help in the struggle against poverty, against some ways of corruption and can help to contribute to a more sustainable development of the planet”, has added Jaume Fabregat, director of Victoriano Muñoz Oms Chair (VMO) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). This Chair, sponsored by ENDESA Red, organises jointly with the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) the Second International Conference on Ethics and Human Values in Engineering that will be held in Barcelona next 2nd, 3rd and 4th March.
According to Fabregat, who is also the Secretary of the Conference, “engineers are convinced that engineering can play a decisive role now and in the future. However, it all starts when educating in values to future engineers, I mean, impregnating university studies with ethics and humanism”. The director of VMO Chair believes that “the Conference must facilitate engineers new elements of reflection that may help them to make more meditated decisions about their work, the consequences of it and its significance”. As Fabregat says, “the complexity of the social and economic frame where we live forces us to make broad-spectrum decisions if we want to act correctly and responsibly”.
The Second International Conference on Ethics and Human Values in Engineering has almost shaped its programme and the names of the speakers that will take part. The Conference, that will gather in Barcelona engineers from all around the world, pretends to visualize that a responsible practice of engineering contributes to social and economical progress of countries and, simultaneously, refute the cliché of an engineering that lives with its back to society and disconnected of ethic and human values.
