This article explores the identity and role of engineers through the lens of care ethics. Building on other attempts to develop engineering ethics based on normative moral perspectives that are similar to and consistent with the ethics of care (e.g., virtue ethics), we propose that engineering practices within small and medium scale projects present the conditions for developing moral relations based on care. While in reality caring may partake in the activities and goals of the members and stakeholder within an engineering project, there is not much research about an engineering ethics that is explicitly grounded in care ethics. Moving from a characterization of care as “clusters” of practices and values (Held, 2006) (36, 40), the practices of caring actions resembles the exercise of virtues in that it requires availability, intention, and repetition. To illustrate the practical outcome of such a care engineering ethics, we provide a thought experiment regarding a small scale energy project where the different caring virtues are exercised by the engineers involved. We suggest that caring practices can be learned and exercised by professional engineers at different stages of engineering projects. Especially small scale projects may prove suitable for an approach to design and management informed by care ethics.