Essays on Ethical Standards and Professional Societies

These essays specifically address the development and implementation of ethical codes and standards or, more broadly, the ethics-related activities of professional societies.

Ethics: A Weapon to Counter Bioterrorism

This Policy Forum article by Margaret Somerville and Ronald Atlas was published in Science Magazine in 2005. It proposes an ethical code to provide guidance for "scientists, physicians, scientific institutions, and others engaged in research and development in the life sciences throughout the world."
Thinking Like an Engineer: The Place of a code of Ethics in the Practice of a Profession

This landmark essay by Michael Davis argues "that a code of professional ethics is central to advising individual engineers how to conduct themselves, to judging their conduct, and ultimately to understanding engineering as a profession."
Professional Ethics and the NCEES

Authored by R. L. Greene, The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
Prospects for International Standards

Vivian Weil, Illinois Institute of Technology. This lecture explores the possibilities of developing international ethical standards.

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