Anderson: Ignoring the underlying controversy for the moment, I found these excellent two quotes about the nature of engineering work. I would say it’s applicable to every engineering discipline, beyond just software. Very useful concepts for high school students to understand if they are thinking about an engineering career.
Engineering is not the art of building devices; it’s the art of fixing problems. Devices are a means, not an end. Fixing problems means first of all understanding them — and since the whole purpose of the things we do is to fix problems in the outside world, problems involving people, that means that understanding people, and the ways in which they will interact with your system, is fundamental to every step of building a system.
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Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers. If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to. Solitary work is something that only happens at the most junior levels, and even then it’s only possible because someone senior to you — most likely your manager — has been putting in long hours to build up the social structures in your group that let you focus on code.
Source: So, about this Googler’s manifesto. – Yonatan Zunger – Medium
A Professor in Waterloo Engineering 
Thank you for sharing this. I believe this idea should be part of an engineering curriculum. Something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
Yes, according to Canadian engineering accreditation requirements, an understanding of professional ethics and equity is required as part of the curriculum. There is also a Code of Ethics published by Engineers Canada which is covered in most university curriculum.