The Profession and the Professional

Accountability

Professionals hold themselves ultimately accountable

for the quality of their work with the client.

Based on specialized, theoretical knowledge

Professionals render specialized services based on theory,

knowledge, and skills that are most often peculiar to their profession

and generally beyond the understanding and/or capability of those

outside of the profession.

Institutional preparation

Professions typically require a significant period

of hands-on, practical experience in the

protected company of senior members before

aspirants are recognized as professionals.

Autonomy

Professionals have control over

and, correspondingly, ultimate

responsibility for their own work.

Clients rather than customers

Members of a profession exercise

discrimination in choosing clients

rather than simply accepting any

interested party as a customer

Direct working relationships

Professionals habitually work directly

with their clients rather than through

intermediaries or proxies.

Ethical constraints

Professionals are bound to a

code of conduct or ethics

specific to each profession

Merit-based

In a profession, members achieve

employment and success based on

merit and corresponding voluntary

relationships rather than on

corrupted ideals such as social

principle

Moral and Ethical Foundations

Those who believe in moral absolutes have a moral

core articulated by various core values. When those

values are mutually consistent, the individual then,

by definition, has integrity.

Ethics in practice

An ethical code is a rational

construct built upon a

foundation of values.

Professionalism

Means behaving in an ethical

manner, while taking and fulfill their

legitimate responsibilities in every

situation every time, without fail.

Professional Ethics

Professional ethics is a code of values

and norms that actually guide practical

decisions when they are made by

professionals

Goals of Professional Work and Their

Problems

Professional work is different from

occupational work in a way that implies

that professional ethics is distinct from

an occupational work ethic.

Great responsibility

Professionals deal in matters of vital importance to their

clients and are therefore entrusted with grave

responsibilities and obligations.

CODE OF ETHICS OF ENGINEERS - THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

Engineers uphold and advance the integrity, honor and dignity of the

engineering:

I. using their knowledge and skill for the enhancement of human welfare;

II. being honest and impartial, and servicing with fidelity the public, their

employers and clients;

III. striving to increase the competence and prestige of the engineering

profession; and

IV. supporting the professional and technical societies of their disciplines.

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