LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

FOR ENGINEERS

CHE680

Ir. Dr. MOHD SHIRAZ ARIS

Professional Engineer

IEM / BEM

Registration required for engineering practice in Malaysia

Concerns professional registration, management and due diligence

Defines guidelines on ethics and professional conduct

Definition of ethics in IEM

Hallmark of professions

Asserting independence from business

Prioritising the public interest

Ethics in a PE scope

Competent discharge of duties - obligations and responsibilities

Respect of laws

not to injure reputation of fellow professionals

disclosure of conflict of interest

maintain confidentiality of professional services

uphold integrity of professional body

abide by code of conduct

not to act on behalf of employers in matters of payments/contracts

train graduate engineers

Ethical pressure

Medicine

Engineering

everyone eventually grows old, suffers various infirmities and dies. The
physician fights a battle with fate and inevitably loses

Failures are visible, accountability is direct and immutable laws of physics

and science leave little room for manoeuvring or interpretation

Law

adversary proceedings result in the loss of half case, plea bargaining

maybe necessary. the truth is relative and depends on the advocacy and
strength of personality

Code of Ethics
Applying ethics to a profession or discipline

ICT

Engineering

Medicine

Law

Journalism

Psychology

Case study 1: Consulting Engineers

Under normal circumstances, a consulting engineer should not
supplant the work of another consulting engineer after
knowing that the 1st consulting engineer has already been
entrusted with the work. If he has been asked by the same
client to take over the work of that 1st consulting engineer,
what do you think should be the proper procedure in effecting
this change of consultants? How should the matter be dealt
with if the 1st engineer refuses to agree to this change because
he has not been paid his fees by the client?

Case study 2: Risk Management

Risk is inherent in most engineering work. Discuss the ways
in which such risks can effect the employer, engineer and
contractor and how such risks can influence the form of
contract and the contract price.