Workshop of Materials and System Safety Study Group
〜The ethics in engineering, and the role of engineers〜
Sponsor: Materials and System Safety Forum, The Society of Non-Traditional Technology
Co-sponsor: The Society of Materials Science, Japan, Risk Forum of Kanto Branch & Material Reliability, Committee
| Support: | The Iron and
Steel Institute of Japan, Safety Factor and Allowable Stress Setting
Research Committee (prearranged) The Japan Institute of Metals, The 0th subcommittee (prearranged) High Pressure Institute of Japan, Permission stress database committee |
| Objectives: | The
concern about the safety of relation to a citizen with earth environment
or health is high. Recently, people concern is pulled and the accident in
which the technology which has big influence also socially participates
has occurred mostly. As for the citizen, the situation that it cannot
share technology information with a specialist with deepening of the
specialty nature of technology while health and the concern which receives
safely are high is also born. For this reason, the doubt over technology
may be held by the occurrence of the accident and the accident as
technical fault may be sensationally treated as a social incident. On the
other hand, in present-day Japanese society, many engineers are the
members of an organization and are in trouble on the facilities of an
organization and an individual, and the balance of a risk. Future society's contribution of technology will increase increasingly. Moreover, of course, in our country, a state does not pay a risk, but the West is going in the direction left to individual selection. For this reason, social mission and role of the engineer who is in the center of technology and knows information well are large. This workshop discusses the role of the engineering and technology over public presentation of the ethics of engineering, the ethics of a company, an engineer's ethics, an engineer's social responsibility, and information, transparentizing and technical selection, and a risk etc. aiming at safe social construction. |
Time: 13:00 - 17:30, Friday, December 20, 2002
Place: Kagaku-kaikan Meeting room #501, 1-5 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101-8307 Tel 03-3292-6162
Participation Fee: Free
Participating number: 70 persons (in order of arrival)
Contact: The Society of Non-Traditional Technology
Toranomon Sakurada Dori bldg.7F, 1-2-10 Toranomon Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0001
TEL 03-3503-4681 FAX 03-3597-0535
e-mail： mitoh@sntt.or.jp URL： http://www.sntt.or.jp/
Program:
Chairman: Akihito Nitta (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
13：00〜13：05 Session greeting
13：05〜13：45 “An engineer is a strange specialist !?” Norifumi Saito (Kansai University)
13：45〜14：15 “Can an engineer tell ethics?” Kiyoshi Shibata (National Maritime Research Institute)
14：15〜14：55 “Why is corporate ethics now required?” Kouichi Ikeda (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)
14：55〜15：10 BreakChairman: Koichi Yagi (National Institute for Materials Science)
15：10〜15：50 “The ethics of a nuclear technical community, and an engineer's responsibility” Hideaki Nishihara (Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University)
15：50〜16：30 “An engineer's responsibility and role in food industry” Takuo Matsumoto (Snow Brand Milk Products Co.,Ltd.)
16：30〜17：10 “Risk management which bears prosperity of safety and technical society” Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
17：10〜17：30 Comprehensive discussion, Closing greeting
