Description
Course Description
This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering. This course will address a few of the ethics considerations that confront engineers in the normal conduct of their professional life.
Engineers have the obligation to protect the public health safety and welfare. Training in the first two of these (health and safety) is generally the subject of Laws & Rules courses. Protections of the public welfare are more nebulous and harder to define in the law. This course will address a few of the public welfare considerations that confront engineers in the normal conduct of their professional life. The learning objectives are to increase the attendee’s understanding of:
- Optimization
- Honest Service
- Predicting Results
- Qualifications
- Reliance on Software
- Influence
- Standardization
- Automation
- Learn/Teach/Mentor
- Errors
- Respect
Hours: 1 LU/HSW hour