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 ...

New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...

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.

Enjoyable, high-quality research can only be conducted when everyone feels safe, secure, and supported. All Geoscience community members are thus required to maintain a discrimination-free and ...

As engineers, our creations have an immeasurable effect on the world, often one that continues to evolve after us in unimaginable ways. From bridges that tragically collapse to robots that are used as ...

If you are inspired by the promise of science and technology, and aware of the inherent risks, there is a place for you here. We focus on the contemporary philosophical issues of engineering and ...

Some computing groups have developed, or are working to establish, ethics codes for IT. The Association for Computing Machinery and the Association of Information Technology Professionals, for example ...

S. Travis Waller is a Director at Mobility Thinking Pty Ltd. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Transport for NSW, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd and CISCO Systems. Kourosh ...

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 ...