A new Code of Ethical Conduct for engineering professionals comes into force on 1 July. Institution of Professional Engineers (IPENZ) Chief Executive Susan Freeman-Greene says the Code sets out ...

April 24, 2023: GAITHERSBURG, Maryland – The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the world’s leading professional society for fire protection and fire safety engineering, announces a new ...

In practice when we are faced with an ethical dilemma, we seldom think it through from first principles. We usually draw on existing experience and past judgments. Making a sound ethical judgment is ...

A code of ethics issued by a business is a particular kind of policy statement. A properly framed code is, in effect, a form of legislation within the company binding on its employees, with specific ...

The short answer to this question is: yes, they do, but it is perhaps in the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ that the real need and necessity for ethics among engineers and the engineering profession unfolds.

A senior design analysis of Engineering Ethics and the challenge of building a modular house in post-earthquake Haiti. The following article (and accompanying PowerPoint slideshow) was written by ...

I had only been working as a graduate engineer for a few years and was minding my own business working for a yacht designer when my boss asked me to get in touch with a person who was looking for ...

The news keeps getting worse for Volkswagen. Following a scandal last month that exposed a software hack rigging diesel vehicles to falsely pass emissions tests, the company is now planning widespread ...