Mohammed Baaoum

Dealing with deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or national differences is considered one crucial challenge that engineers face when working in a global environment. Serval professional engineering societies, in different counties, formulated engineering codes of ethics to uphold the highest level of ethical conduct and maintain standards of practice and professionalism in engineering. However, as conventional engineering practice has been relatively localized to specific cultural context majority of these code of ethics are based on the background conditions existing in a particular society. Also much research shows that most traditional and current engineering codes of ethics were mainly formulated for private sector interest. As a result, ethics related to business, leadership, and management have been emphasized, while ethics related to community development, social justice  were ignored (Simoes, et al., 2007, Riley,2008) Thus, after reviewing the engineering code of ethics, many engineering educators called for a fundamental reconceptualization of engineering ethics based on local and global challenges. The goal of this presentation is to propose a comprehensive educational model to foster sustainability and ecological worldview in global engineering education based on collective knowledge and the experience of practitioners in Engineering Without Borders, as well as scholarly research. In addition, the research intends to explore how the Earth Charter, as an international ethical document, could enhance sustainability ecological worldview in engineering ethics especially in global context.