Integrating ethics and values into Engineering Education seminar sub-theme-values and patriotism

Abstract

There is a growing awareness that engineers need an acquaintance with the Subject of Ethics and Values as the study of these will teach the young scholars the virtues of humanism and qualities of human-being-ism. These virtues and qualities will develop in them righteousness, self-discipline, fellow feeling, loyalty to duty and reverence for the aged which will help them become effective, humane professionals tomorrow. It has been observed that development of technology is a part of development of ideas, attitudes and actions which give to human civilization an infinitely vital scope for positive change.1 Though technical education has considerably eased the ways of human happiness on the body level, yet it has posed a danger of producing feelingless human beings without a developed sense of humanism on the spiritual level. In the 21st century, we need those technocrats whose physical hands must work for physical