Engineers engineering Professionalism Values

This Statement of Ethical Principles sets a standard to which members of the engineering profession should aspire in their working habits and relationships. The Statement is fully compatible with the principles in the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser s Universal Ethical Code for Scientists, with an emphasis on matters of particular relevance to engineers. The values on which it is based should apply in every situation in which professional engineers exercise their judgement. 

As noted, strive for brevity, that is, documents that are no longer than they have to be. Engineers and other technical professionals value efiBcient facilities and equipment. Let s also strive for efficient writing. While active voice writing reduces document length, other means are available to tighten up your writing. 

The primary responsibility of an engineering professional is to protect public health and safety. However, engineering professionals also have a responsibility to their employers or clients, to their families, to themselves, and to the environment. Meeting these responsibilities will challenge the practicing engineer to draw upon a system of ethical values. 

Our research goal intends to fill this void. It is based on an extensive survey conducted online, in 2011, by the French National Council of Scientists and Graduate Engineers (CNISF, called today lESF). Of the 39,000 survey respondents, 27,000 engineers answered to an optional part of the questionnaire, which we have designed, dealing with social, ethical and professional values. The data were analyzed with SPSS. 

The thermal conductivity Qi) of polymers is an important property in thermal-stress applications and also in thermal insulations. For the latter, polymer foams with air pockets or other gas (CCL3F) pockets have k values as low as 0.15 BTU in./(°F ft h). Values of thermal conductivity for several materials are listed in Table G.l. Use of foam insulations that contain formaldehyde are cautioned against because of recent evidence of possible adverse health effects. The professional engineer (P.E.), upon registration, pledges to protect the public health and safety. Therefore, such concerns should always be considered in design. Of course, this concern also applies to all engineering professionals. 

While the principal value of the book is for the professional chemist or student of chemistry, it should also be of value to many people not especially educated as chemists. Workers in the natural sciences—physicists, mineralogists, biologists, pharmacists, engineers, patent attorneys, and librarians—are often called upon to solve problems dealing with the properties of chemical products or materials of construction. Eor such needs this compilation supplies helpful information and will serve not only as an economical substitute for the costly accumulation of a large library of monographs on specialized subjects, but also as a means of conserving the time required to search for... 

In this respect, current state-of-the-art ends up in a draw. This book makes a substantial contribution to the current literature on the analytics of polymer additives, follows up an earlier industrial tradition and lays a foundation for the future. It will be of great value to a broad readership comprising industrial and academic (analytical) chemists, polymer scientists and physicists, technologists and engineers, and other professionals involved in R D, production, use and reuse of polymers and additives in all areas of application, including manufacturers, formulators, compounders, end users, government legislators and their staff, forensic scientists, etc. 

This book will be of considerable value to graduate students, science and engineering faculty, scientists, process engineers and sales engineers in industry, government regulators and health professionals and aU others with an interest in purifying our water and air. 

The value of rapid prototyping comes in when you need to dramatically reduce the time and expense involved in making a model of your innovation so it can be assessed and optimized by designers and manufacturing engineers before it goes into production. As well, rapid prototypes are also used by marketing and sales professionals to test and anticipate customer reaction. 

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