The September Ethical Dilemma: Designed for his own bid?
Engineer Arthur, a principal in a local consulting engineering firm, practicing as a professional corporation, who also is a principal owner in a construction contracting firm, prepared plans and specifications for the design...
The August Ethical Dilemma: Are Referral Fees Ethical?
Engineer Nick is a licensed professional engineer and owner of a corporation providing engineering services. The engineering corporation performs...
The July Ethical Dilemma: Coming clean about the clean up
Engineer Andy, a principal in ABC Engineering, an environmental engineering firm, submits qualifications and a proposal to a local municipality to be considered as the consultant for the research and analysis of a former dump site...
The June Ethical Dilemma: Responsible Enough?
Engineer Brian is a licensed professional engineer and land surveyor in state A. Brian is associated with a firm, XYZ Engineering and Surveying...
The May Ethical Dilemma: The cost of being a partner
The facts of this case describe a construction process commonly known as "design/build and/or turnkey." This construction process has been used by industry...
The April Ethical Dilemma: Improper Disclosure
One of the more challenging areas of engineering ethics issues involves the everyday relations among engineers. At one time, the Code had strict provisions regarding relations..