AVIATION PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE [AE _]

Course objectives:
The student should know the general principles those forbid or require various kinds of action in engineering. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on learning how to criticize and evaluate moral and philosophical claims, as well as developing and deepening one's own views.

1. Brief introduction of Professional Ethics (3 hours)
1. What is Ethic? Why study ethic? What is Professional Ethics, and what is a worker’s rules or standards that he should do and not do in the working or in the workplace.
2. Cherishing the job devotionally (4 hours)
1. Love professionals and respect their jobs. Further speaking: in workplace, Keeping honesty and credit, cherishing the job devotionally, uniting each other, making pioneering efforts.
3. Honesty (4 hours)
1. Honesty means no telling lies. Companies have an obligation to provide customers with the information they need to make informed choices. Telling the whole truth may mean losing a sale, but it is less costly in the long run than losing customer’s loyalty.
4. Justness (6 hours)
1. When Interests Collide happen what a worker should do.
5. Cooperation (5 hours)
1. It includes two parts: 1) Why cooperate? 2) Cooperation vs competition
6. Engineering Ethic (4 hours)
1. Engineering ethic is the field of applied ethics which examines and sets standards for engineers' obligations to the public, their clients, employers and the profession.
7. Science Ethic (4 hours)
1. The basic goal of science is to cognize the world and to discover new truths of phenomena and processes. The process of scientific cognition should be based on ethical principles of both research and discussion defined.