Because 2 1 has actually passed nearly a year and a half, human engineering technology can be said to have reached its peak. From aerospace engineering, skyscrapers to tunnel engineering and deep-sea diving, it is a piece of cake for human beings now. The rapid development of engineering has also caused related ethical problems, so a new discipline-engineering ethics came into being. Mu Wen intends to discuss the necessity of studying engineering ethics by expounding the related concepts of engineering ethics and previous studies, briefly describing the development of engineering ethics abroad and the research status quo in China.

Engineering ethics, called engineering ethics in English, has risen in some developed countries such as the United States since the 1970s. After the last 20 years of the 20th century, the teaching and research of engineering ethics gradually entered the stage of institutionalization. Introducing the probability of engineering ethics requires a preliminary understanding of the two probabilities of engineering and ethics.

The so-called engineering refers to the practical application of scientific knowledge and practical experience, and is the general name of various professions and disciplines formed by using natural science principles to make natural resources serve mankind. In addition, scholars in the field of philosophy of science and technology in China define engineering as "the application of mathematics and scientific and technological knowledge to the activities and results of planning, research, processing, testing and creating artificial systems, and sometimes it refers to a specialized subject about such activities". The so-called ethics, now generally called moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy and a science about morality. Some people think that ethics studies what is moral "good" and "evil", "yes" and "no", and its task is to analyze, comment and formulate normative moral standards to deal with various moral problems. Others believe that ethics is a knowledge to explore practical rational issues such as goodness, correctness, obligation, responsibility, virtue, freedom, rationality and choice. Generally speaking, we can define ethics as a study room for studying moral issues.