Engineering profession specializations

Educators should take advantage of the availability of professional chemists and chemical engineers, who can speak to the students either in class or in some special forum. Contact with practicing scientists can help students put a human face on a possible future career. It is especially important that women and minority scientists also play a role in such outreach to students, to show that indeed the profession welcomes all with the talent to contribute. Some of this effort should be directed toward the early parts of K-12 education. The future of the chemical sciences may depend on the ability of educators to convince young students that it s cool to be excited by chemistry. ... 

The emergence of electronic materials processing, along with other specialized topics within the chemical engineering discipline, raises questions about research, teaching, and the profession in general, questions similar to those asked in other areas, such as biotechnology. The aim of this dis-... 

The third meaning, the one we are concerned with in this chapter, is professional ethics. Professional ethics is the special rules of conduct adhered to by those engaged in pursuits ordinarily called professions, such as law, medicine, engineering, and science. Professional ethics is specific. Legal ethics applies only to lawyers (and no one else) scientific ethics applies only to scientists. Professional ethics governs the interactions among professionals and between professionals and society. In many cases, it requires a higher standard of conduct than is expected of ordinary people, but it must be consistent with ordinary morality and with appropriate moral theories. 

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