IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Resources

IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Resources

Provided by:
Walter L. Elden, P.E. (Ret),
IEEE Life Senior Member and Chair, Ethics Committee
IEEE Melbourne Section
Mail Inquiries to: Walter L. Elden

Key IEEE Material

IEEE Position Paper on Ethical Conduct Awareness

IEEE Code of Ethics (1990 Current Version)

IEEE CS/ACM Joint Software Engineering Code of Ethics

IEEE EMCC Position on CS/ACM Software Code

IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee (EMCC)

IEEE By-Law I-306.7. Ethics and Member Conduct Committee. The Ethics and Member Conduct Committee shall make recommendations for policies and/or educational programs to promote the ethical behavior of members and staff, and shall consider instituting proceedings, as defined in IEEE Bylaws I-110 and I-111, related to matters of member and officer discipline and requests for support.

Neither the Ethics and Member Conduct Committee nor any of its members shall solicit or otherwise invite complaints, nor shall they provide advice to individuals.

Membership. The IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee shall be appointed by and responsible to the Board of Directors and shall consist of not more than nine members of IEEE, including the Chair, who are not members of the Board of Directors. The Committee membership should include persons having experience and knowledge of the major operational organizational units of IEEE.

2002 Sections Congress Slides on Ethics and Member Conduct Committee

IEEE's Member Conduct Committee - 20 Years of Operations

IEEE EMCC Bylaws

I-110. IEEE Member Discipline and Support

I-111. Removal or Suspension of Delegates, Directors and Officers

IEEE Relevant Policies and Procedures

Matters of Ethical Principle (Policy 7.9)

IEEE Involvement in Matters of Ethical Misconduct (Policy 7.10)

Ethics & Member Conduct Committee Procedures (Policy 7.11)

Ethical Support (Policy 7.12)

Amicus Curiae Briefs (Policy 7.13)

Supplemental Codes of Ethics

Introduction to Codes of Ethics

AIEE Code of Ethics 1950 (Pre IEEE)

IEEE Code of Ethics 1979

ABET Code of Ethics 1998 *

* ABET SUGGESTED GUIDELINES FOR USE WITH
THE FUNDAMENTAL CANONS OF ETHICS 1998

NSPE Code of Ethics 2003

NCEE Rules of Professional Conduct 1999

Online Codes of Ethics

Using a Code of Ethics

Ethics Resource Materials

IEEE Ethics Articles Archive

Guidelines for Engineers Dessenting on Ethical Grounds

Online Ethics Center for Engineers and Scientists

Online Ethics Center HELPLINE

NSPE Ethics Resources

NSPE Ethics in Employment Task Force Report

Guidelines to Professional Employment of Engineers and Scientists

Universal Declaration of Engineers' Rights

Curtailing Ethical Harassment

Ethics Cases

NSPE Board of Ethical Review Cases

Applied Ethical Case of the Month

Ethics Videos and Products

The BART Case of the Early 1970's
(In Which the IEEE Entered an Amicus Curiae)

The BART Case: Ethics and the Employed Engineer

IEEE's Amicus Curiae Legal Brief Filed in the BART Case

IEEE CSIT Honors Former BART Engineers

BART Case: An engineer’s ethical obligation

Ethics in Technical Presentations: BART Case Study

Ethics and Communication in the Case of the Three Engineers and BART

Dis/MisCommunication: The BART Case and Language Barriers

Analyses of Engineering Ethics Cases-BART CASE

The Virginia Edgerton Case

Slow Dispatching of New York Police Cars

Carl Barus Award for Outstanding Service in the Public Interest
Awarded by IEEE SSIT to People Involved in Ethical Controversies

Carl Barus Award Recipients

David Monts -- 2003

Salvador Castro -- 2001 "Experience of a Whistleblower"

Rebecca Leaf -- 1997

Demetrios L. Basdekas -- 1991

Benjamin Linder -- 1988

Rick Parks -- 1986

Virginia Edgerton -- 1979

BART Engineer Max Blankenzee, Robert Bruder, and Holger Hjortsvang -- 1978

IEEE CSIT Honors Former BART Engineers

Engineers and Scientists as Moral Exemplars

Roger Biosjoly and the Challenger Disaster

Inez Austin - Protecting the Public Safety at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Fred Cuny's Courage to Lessen the Suffering of Refugees

Rachel Carson: A Scientist Alerts the Public to the Hazards of Pesticides

William LeMessurier: The Fifty-Nine Story Crisis: A Lesson in Professional Behavior

IEEE Student Ethics Competition (SEC)

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