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Different professions have been tarnished through ethical lapses on the part of their members. This can partly be explained by the profession seeking to protect itself when things go wrong. In the engineering profession, the education of engineers is subject to scrutiny through the process of accreditation. While there are well documented learning outcomes associated with engineering programmes, the members of accreditation panels are invariably engineers. Later in the engineer’s career, in the evaluation stage for professional recognition, the candidate engineer must demonstrate a number of competences. The interview board members evaluating these competences are engineers. The involvement of non-engineers in these activities would be beneficial. There is also considerable benefit, during the education of the engineer, in reflection on an engineering oath, similar to the Hippocratic Oath.
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Grimson, W., Murphy, M. (2013). Making the Case for the Inclusion of Lay Persons on Engineering Accreditation Panels: A Role for an Engineering Hippocratic Oath?. In: Michelfelder, D., McCarthy, N., Goldberg, D. (eds) Philosophy and Engineering: Reflections on Practice, Principles and Process. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7762-0_15
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