Proposals for Promoting Code of Ethics

Debates in forum
Awards for exemplary engineers
Assist and Protect whistle blowers
Helpline
Educate Public
Investigate wrong doings of members
Case Studies

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Regulated Society

Carefully balance individual needs and

desires against collective needs and
desires
Disagreement on Action and Agreement of
goal
Engineers should play an active role in
establishing or changing enforceable rules
of engineering as well as in enforcing them
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Case Studies
1969 Santa Barbara oil spill
Hickels Law
Babylon's Building code 1758 B.C
U.S Steam boat code 1852 A.D
233 Explosions
2563 people killed
2097 injured
Mr.Gothrie was the first supervisor of a
regulatory body

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Trends towards greater detail
Demands for rules to prevent accident and
casualties will arise.
As technology machine becomes more
complex simplicity in rule making
appeared to be doomed
Lawmakers cannot be expected to keep
up with technology advancement
Industries complain about too much of
restrictions imposed by regulatory
agencies
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Industrial Standards

Facilitates interchange of components

Ready made substitute for hand made
calculations
Decrease production costs
Criteria for interchangeability and quality
will be attained
Benefit the client and public
Smaller brands to compete with big brands
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