Responsible
Explore resources to build your Responsible competencies –
Responsible:
To meet the needs of all people within the limits of our planet.
Technology steward
Mindset
As a technology steward, you shape technology to benefit all. You are able to navigate complex relationships and inherent tensions to ensure sustainable and equitable results.
Relevant terms: Communication, stewardship, leadership, responsibility for decisions, critical reflection, value tensions
Professional value
Knowledge
Professional value means you commit to prioritising social and environmental impacts within decision-making. You critically reflect on the role and responsibility of engineering to positively and negatively affect societal change.
Relevant terms: Professional humility, ethics, professional codes of conduct, statement of ethical principles, critical thinking
Sound reasoning
Skill
Sound reasoning requires an evidence-based approach to uphold ethical practice. This involves working with broad, partial, and subjective evidence to make meaningful long-term assessments.
Relevant terms: Multi-criteria assessment tools, impact assessment tools, critical thinking, independent judgement