Question

What are the major prohibitions provided by the Code of Ethics of Engineers?

What is the purpose of imposing on the engineer and the surveyor the obligation to participate in courses, talks, conferences and workshops?

Under what circumstances can the engineer and surveyor make public statements?

Under what circumstances is an engineer who does not meet all the necessary qualifications allowed to accept a job assignment?

Answer 1

Major prohibition by the Code of Ethics of Engineers

• Engineers should ensure the safety , health and welfare of the public while performing their professional duties.
• Engineers shall issues public statements in an objective and truthful manner.
• Engineers should handle their professional matters with each and every employer or with the client as faithfully as you can and try their level best to avoid conflicts of interest.
• Engineers shall perform services only in the area of competence.
• Engineer should perform in such a manner to upholdtheir integrity,honor and dignity of the profession.
• Engineers shlould build the reputation in their profession on the truthfullness of their work other than competing unfairly with others.
• Engineers shall continue their professional development throughout their careers and shall provide oppurtunities for the proffessional development of those engineers under their supervision.

Purpose of engineers to attend conferences,talks and workshops

• Attending conferences,workshops and talks are oppurtunities for engineers and surveyors to get together with other engineers ,surveyors and other related proffessionals.
• New techniques,devices and technologiesiwill be introduced .
• There is discussions on challenges and how they overcome those challeges.These success stories will be a great motivation for an upcoming engineers so that they can improve themselves.
• All most all the conferences include presentation of results of new researches.
• Improve your peresentation and communication skills.Answering questions after your presentation will increase your confidence in your respective field.
• Listening to and participating in lively discussions will defenitely give you new ideas and it help to refine your existing concepts.
• Conferences and workshops are a golden oppurtunity for networking.Sometimesyou get a chance to meet a person who is very successfulin the feild and an admirable person that may lead to a future collaboration thus develop the career.

Under what circumstances engineer and surveyor make public statements

• Engineers shall make public statements  with out making chances of misunderstanting of the achievements of engineering.
• Engineers should be confident and truthful in all the professional reports and statements that they are peresenting before the public.That reports should include all the relevant and confirmed informations only.
• Engineers shall issue no statements ,criticisms or arguments on engineering matters which are paid parties.
• Engineers shall be dignified and modest in explaining their work and merit will avoid any act tending to promote their own interests at the expense of the integrity,honor and dignity of the profession.

Under what circumstances engineer who doesnot meet the necessary qualification can accept new job assignment

• Engineers shall undertake to perform engineering assignments only when qualified by education or experience in the specific technical field of engineering involved.
• Engineers can accept assignments which requires qualification and experience ouside their respective field of competence,only if their services are restricted to those phases of the project in which they are qualified.All other phases of such projects are performed by qualified consultants.