NSPE codes
Memory is the fourth Canon in the NSPE code of ethics. This principle is mainly forgotten and misunderstood. Memory seems to show the ability to recite any information. It suggests that one knows more than what they actually present in any given document. For instance, one can be an instruction guide on how to put a table together but they don’t know how the table is made. When any information is represented, one expects the audience to ask more about it. This canon is not productive currently because there are different technological devices that allow the public engineers to rely on the electronic means of memorizing. Currently, many engineers use skilled ways of recruiting and retaining their employees in the engineering area (NSPE, Public Criticism – Comments Made at Engineering College, 1).
The young engineers turn out to be careful as they implement trough these factors and must be aware of the ethical approach that they start their professional careers. The essential canons helps the engineers in fulfilling their professional duties which clarifies that memory canon is no longer essential in this. These engineers who use the most productive canons are able to hold the safety and the welfare of the society in that they perform their services in their areas of competence. This helps them in having public statement that is in a good objective as they perform their duties more honorably so as to enhance the usefulness of the profession. The engineers perform their duties when they are qualified by the education or have experience in the certain technical fields that are involved. They do not necessarily attach their signatures to any documents that deal with the engineering as they do not have competence under their control. They do not deserve the memory canon when giving out the public statements as they offer true professional reports (NSPE, Public Criticism – Comments Made at Engineering College, 2).
They may also express their public technical objectives that are based on the knowledge of the engineering process and its competences. They do not get any indirect award to their contract by the public authority or any other public award as having the effect of influencing the award of the contract. This helps them in not paying the commissions or any brokerage fee in order to have the contracts. Based on their professional duties, these engineers are guided by their highest standard of honesty and integrity. They always admit their mistakes and do not change the facts of those mistakes. This helps them in advising their clients or the employees on the projects that seem to turn unsuccessful. They cannot be able to attract other engineers by misleading them based on their professional integrity. The ethical duty of the engineer becomes an issue of the individual knowledge (NSPE, Employment-Expense paid trip by prospective employer, 2).
The NSPE code need that the engineer withdraws from a project and report it to the proper commands when the matter involves the risk to the public health and their welfare. These issues relate to the matters of the legal condition and do not connect to the judgment of the engineering profession. The NSPE code gives an obligation to the engineers to be faithful in their professional work with their employees. Different duties arise for the engineer to hold huge safety and welfare to the public and that the obligation should be loyal for the employee or the customer. The professional engineers are the greatest sources of the ethical challenges for the engineers. It is not easy at times for the engineers to decide how to carry various factors that are involved in a condition and how to act when the two of the canon codes conflict. The first obligation that involves the safety and the welfare of the public health develops from the professional approach of the engineering work (NSPE, Employment-Expense paid trip by prospective employer, 3).
In any organization, only the professionals have the required skills and experience in solving the technological challenges that the organization might be involved in during their design or the production process. All the employees in any organization are assigned for different roles with a huge responsibility for the technical affairs that are assigned to the engineers. The duty of the employing organization is got in the employment contract. The contract of the employment specifies the duties that the employee is responsible to perform for the organization. The contract of the engineer may be written or implicit. When the employee is dedicated to the terms and the conditions of their contract, they become the agents of that organization and the agency law appreciates them to act loyally (NSPE, Employment- Duty to inform the Employer of outside Practice, 1).
The ethical issues that are engaged by the engineers who perform the services outside any regular kind of employment have been on question for many years. The essential possible solution is acting potentially as some of the actual conflicts can rise between the interests of the individuals employed engineer and their ethical issues. The NSPE board of the ethical evaluation has a means of addressing the engineering issues over the past years. The board opened some concerns over the aspects in which the engineer pursues his duties in this area. The NSPE codes make it clear that before complicating any outside service, the engineer has the duty to inform the employer. This allows the employer to perform her opportunities in evaluating whether the worker’s outer the service will have an encounter or oppose to the interest of the manager (NSPE, Employment- Duty to inform the Employer of outside Practice, 3).
Work cited
NSPE, Public Criticism – Comments Made at Engineering College. 2004. NSPE Board of Ethical Review.
NSPE, Employment-Expense paid trip by prospective employer. 2002. NSPE Board of Ethical Review.
NSPE, Employment- Duty to inform the Employer of outside Practice. 2011. NSPE Board of Ethical Review.
