Ethical engineering for sustainable development

Ours is an era which provides much emphasis on sustainable development and lifestyles as an all-embracing philosophy. Hence, it is imperative that we require ethical values based on sustainable development that can direct the attention of the public in general and engineers in particular to adopt and employ such kind of technology which helps in development of social and moral issues involved in decision-making and assessing the role of technology from different angles, such as energy conservation, scale of utilization of non-renewable resources. It implies that the role of engineering provides not only planning, designing, and constructing, but also has the responsibility to help to protect the environment by restoring the natural resources for future generations. Sustainable engineering is a component of creative process of utilizing science and technology and making use of energy and resources at a rate, which does not compromise the integrity of natural environment. Understood in a holistic structure, sustainability is a composite and multifaceted vision of development which limits the economic growth and other human activities to the capacity of nature for self-regeneration and places the progress of human situation and respect for environmental excellence. The present paper is an attempt in articulating an engineering solution to this issue with an ethical concern.