| Three will have no other things that will like engineering which has extensive and deep influence on human society. Engineering has embedded to our daily life, they not only satisfied our material needs, but also changed our thinking model. With its majestic and sophisticated artifacts, engineering has become an indispensable part of our life style. Practical wisdom, in order to pursue better life, is an ability to make prudent choices and behaviors, in another words, practical wisdom is the unity of prudent ends and means. Engineering practice internally includes the considerations of ends and means of engineering activities and it is the unity of prudent ends and means. The primary end of engineering practice is enhancing the well-fare of the general public. Inevitably, engineering ethics offers standards of behaviors for engineers and can help them deal with ethical dilemmas, so engineers will adhere to the first principle and put the well-fare of the general public before other values. In modern engineering practice, engineering becomes more and more complicated and many kinds of knowledge, which constitutes the dedicated system of knowledge, are needed. With the proper artifacts, engineering meets material living need of the people and enhance the well-fare of the general public. Engineering knowledge has provided realistic and valid means for engineering practice. |
