Ideals and Obligations of Professional Engineers

It has group consciousness for the promotion of knowledge and professional ideals and for rendering social services. 

It has a legal status and requires well-formulated standards of admission. 

Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first president of the United States and a mining engineer, comparing engineering with other professions, made the following whimsical observations  

On the other hand, unlike the doctor, his is not a life among the weak. Unlike the soldier, destruction is not his purpose. Unlike the lawyer, quarrels are not his daily bread. To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope. (3) 

The ideals and obligations of engineering as a profession have been embodied in solemn statements of intention prepared by engineering societies. Members of the National Society of Professional Engineers subscribe to this Creed (4)  

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