Interdisciplinary Course in Engineering Education
Few would disagree that an undergraduate education should equip the engineer with more than technical competence. The subject of this paper includes discussion of a senior-level interdisciplinary...
Conflicts: The Common Denominator of Health/Safety Programs
Constraints on time and resources influences the public sector as strongly as our personal lives. Experience teaches us that our desires must be tempered with hard realities. Finite resources...
Should We Use the Open Ocean to Ease Pressure on the Coastal Zone?
This paper proposes a framework for analysis of issues arising from the prospect of deep-ocean dumping of wastes. While it takes no stand on the issues themselves, it examines the motives...
Investigating Failure
Failure investigations can be adversarial or cooperative, but impartiality, good engineering ethics, and professional responsibility require that the investigator begin with no premature...
The Corps Resident Engineer
The paper briefly defines the authority, duties and responsibilities of a resident engineer (RE) in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Based on these, it is concluded that the RE has the...
Ethics in Contract Administration
Society still struggles with the moral dilemma of whether an act must be illegal to be unethical. Citing codes and examples, this paper focuses on the ethical aspects of Resident Engineers...
Ethics in the Field
Just as a child matures through various stages of moral development, the engineer too undergoes professional moral development described by psychiatrists. Development comes in six stages...
The Search for Engineering Ethics
The author suggests that engineering ethics is not a set of guild rules governing polite behavior; not a matter of obeying the law or being prudent in business; not a viable substitute...
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering
The?Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice?presents issues of broad professional interest and diverse views of engineering education, and professional practice. Papers examine...
$80,000 in Payoffs: An Engineer Tells His Story
A member of ASCE was told that if he wanted public work in a certain area, he would have to pay the County Engineer 25% of the project costs. The engineer decided to pay and has regretted...
Teaching Professionalism and Ethics
Controversies surrounding the meaning of the term professionalism are examined, as well as the influence of these controversies on what should be taught to engineers in courses on professionalism....
ASCE Ethics Code: Guide Beyond the Profession
ASCE action to amend its Code of Ethics is a worthy response to the growing need for recognizing that professional integrity and high standards of good conduct are important. The author...
Professional Turning Points in Civil Engineering History
Historical review of the emergence of civil engineering in the United States as a profession, using the progressively changing standards of education, technical competence and public responsibility...
Conference on Engineering Ethics
This conference on engineering ethics was probably the first undertaken as a cooperative effort of a number of societies, if not the very first conference ever held dealing exclusively...
ASCE Code of Ethics Revised. . .
The ASCE Code of Ethics, and its accompanying Guide to Professional Practice, have served for many years as valuable standards for the professional conduct of engineers. Committees responsible...
Ethics: Wisconsin Section Sparks Timely Discussion
Eight case studies of ethical questions were debated in an audience participation panel format, at the 1975 Wisconsin Section ASCE Annual Meeting. The program was judged successful for...
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
In his inaugural address, ASCE's president describes his innovative approach to optimizing ASCE performance. He is (1) Challenging staff members and committees to improved...
Manual of Professional Practice for Civil Engineers
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Standards of Professional Relations and Conduct
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