关键词: 工程伦理学, 对象, 范围

Abstract: Engineering is a kind of independent social activities that is the realistic foundation that engineering ethics exists and prerequisite of studying it as a kind of discipline. Because of the wide and narrow of understanding of the property, target and range of engineering, there are two way of understanding of its reservation and the developing direction of discipline in project ethics. The Chinese scholar who carrying on the ethics research of the engineering, not only must pay attention to engineering ethics of the narrow sense, but also should pay more attention to engineering ethics of broad sense. While studying and analyzing engineering ethics, we must combine analysis of ethics with other analysis of latitudes together, not only should pay attention to the mutual infiltration between different latitude but also should pay attention to the contradiction, conflict,arrangement in an order and coordination between different latitude .

Key words: engineering, the target, the range