This article considers the role and relevance of environmental ethics for engineers criteria that a code or other system of environmental ethics should meet and how best the engineering . Engineering students who have spent four years learning how to crunch numbers and to solve technical problems to three significant figures admit that the study of environmental ethics introduces new and exciting concepts into their professional thinking and provides a perspective which otherwise would be missing from their education. In the past engineers have generally sought and implemented technical solutions to problems posed by other people and not considered ethical issues related to the environmental and social impacts of solving these problems engineering ethics has largely been concerned with professionalism and responsibility for technical competence rather than wider social and environmental issues. Abstract in the past engineers have generally sought and implemented technical solutions to problems posed by other people and not considered ethical issues related to the environmental and social impacts of solving these problems engineering ethics has largely been concerned with professionalism and responsibility for technical competence rather than wider social and environmental issues