Energy Environment Ethics and Society detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Safety & Fire Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of energy environment ethics and society is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ENERGY 9
Linkage with development, world energy scenario, fossil fuel resource- estimates and Vduration, India’s energy scenario; Finite/ depleting energy resources, coal, oil, gas, nuclear fission, promises and present status of nuclear fusion energy; Renewable energy, solar, hydro, wind, biomass, ocean, tidal, wave and geothermal. Synergy between energy and environment, global environment issues, greenhouse gas emission, global warming, green energy solutions.
Unit II
SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT 9
Exponential growth in population, environmentally optimum sustainable population, free access resources and the tragedy of commons; environment problems and impact of P.A.T (Population, Affluence and Technology), environmentally beneficial and harmful technologies environment
impact assessment policies and auditing interaction between environment, life support systems and socio-culture system..
Unit III
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Unit IV
ETHICS AND MORAL VALUES 9
Ethical situations, objectives of ethics and its study, role morality and conflicts; values, policies and Organization Culture; Non-professional, quasi- and hardprofessionals; preventive, personal, common and professional ethics; different ethical value criteria like utilitarian, virtue, right and duty ethics with discussion on the case of priority for improvement of urban (high traffic) or rural (low traffic) intersections causing equal number of fatalities; codes of ethics and their limitations; Institute of engineers code for corporate member, IEEE and ACM professional-code
Unit V
ENGINEERING ETHICS 9
Senses of =Engineering Ethics’ – Variety of moral issues – Types of inquiry – Moral dilemmas -Moral Autonomy – Kohlberg’s theory – Gilligan’s theory – Consensus and Controversy – Models of professional roles – Theories about right action – Self-interest – Customs and Religion – Uses of Ethical Theories.
Course Outcomes:
Students able to
- Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to apply ethics in society, discuss the ethical issues related to engineering and realize the responsibilities and rights in the society.
- Ability to identify the gap based to a survey of the relevant literature
- Ability to undertake field and laboratory experiments in a systematic way
- Ability to work independently on a scientific question and arrive at a conclusion
- Ability to communicate the work undertaken effectively.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Miller G. T Jr; Living in the environment; Cengage Publisher
- Govindrajan, Natrajan, Santikumar; Engineering Ethics; PHI pub.
- Raynold G.W. “Ethics in Information Technology; Cengage.
- S Chand &Company“Energy Environment Ethics &Society”, December 2009
- Professional Ethics And Human Values – R.S. Naagarazan PHI New Delhi.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Safety & Fire Engineering 6th Sem, visit SFE 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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