National Society of Professional Engineers

James B. Fair, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas National Academy of Engineering Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Member, American Chemical Society, American Society for Engineering Education, National Society of Professional Engineers (Section 14, Gas Absorption and Gas-Liquid System Design)... 

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See, for example, the codes of ethics of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Other engineering society codes espouse essentially the same idea in different words. 

National Society of Professional Engineers. (2007). NSPE Code of Ethics, July 2007, http //www.nspe.org/Ethics/CodeofEthics/index.html... 

Professional Conduct and Ethics The moral aspect of safety and health often is finked to professional ethics. Many codes of professional conduct and ethics place high value on human fife. For example, the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) places protection of people at the top of its Code of Professional Conduct ... 

Professional Organizations. The National Society of Professional Engineers serves a membership of more than 45,000 licensed professional engineers... 

McCarthy, Shawn P. Engineer Your Way to Success America s Top Engineers Share Their Personal Advice on What They Look for in Hiring and Promoting. Alexandria, Va. National Society of Professional Engineers, 2002. 

Member societies reached out to students to dispel notions that they were hostile to the concerns of youth. The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), for instance, dedicated the October 1968 issue of its journal to student authors. Princeton senior William W. Hill advocated that engineers serve the urban poor. We are not a group of subversive socialists who see as the answer to the ills of society the overthrowing of big business and the capitalist system, he wrote, Quite the opposite is true. ... 

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