Ethics in Practice
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 119, Issue 1
Abstract
Based upon a recent history of events, a close look is given to the meanings and the relationships between ethics, personal morality, codes of ethics and rules of professional conduct, and what is happening in the engineering profession. The behavior of some professional engineering societies versus their expectations of the behavior of their members is questioned as a possible double standard. It is suggested that codes of ethics have been, and can be, more than principles of behavior based on moral values that are good and right. It is demonstrated that it is the duty of every professional engineer to participate in the continuing development of enforced codes of ethics, and particularly rules of professional conduct adopted by their state boards of registration. This action is necessary to protect the public and themselves.
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Copyright © 1993 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: May 7, 1992
Published online: Jan 1, 1993
Published in print: Jan 1993
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