So I was scanning through the websites of various engineering institutions (the engineering council maintains a list
http://www.engc.org.uk/about-us/our-partners/professional-engineering-institutions ) and not only did I discover that the UK Engineering council endorses an IT focused institution (
http://www.bcs.org/category/11284 but apparently you can be a chartered IT scientist via them for over a decade now, though a lesser thing they dub registration has only been available for a few months at this point. There is still the question of how valuable such a thing is but even though I had not heard of it before now I would still rate it more highly than a CCNA) but I thought I would have a scan of some of the codes of ethics for a few of them.
There was never word one said of ethics in any schooling I ever took, give or take about a paragraph on the possible legal implications of reverse engineering (though the words were never said it would later be what I would recognise as the idea of clean room reverse engineering) and some boilerplate text about criminal and similar convictions when signing up, and it had been a while since I read any such codes for institutions*. Since I last read them it seems many of them got bitten by a rabid hippy and now include substantial sections on environmental issues and sustainability as well as more defined sections on bribery, in some cases though they also include some things that might make it relevant to viewers of this thread though I also found some stuff that I found curious.
*most of them post vacancies and nice reports, results of conferences for the public to read. Personally I felt the competence sections too restrictive for the "I will have a look"/triage/rapid deployment/rapid fixing things I tend to involve myself in so joining was not something I could do. Among friends and associates... I actually think unions are commonly joined things these days and so few people seem to join those.
https://www.imeche.org/docs/default...e-royal-charter-and-by-laws-2014.pdf?sfvrsn=0 (page 31-36). Mechanical engineering likely being the biggest field by some amount, give or take what sort of fight those doing aerospace/aeronautical engineering want to pick (
http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Membership/CodeOfConduct.pdf which reads like most I would expect).
"Members shall not knowingly mislead, nor allow others to be misled, in engineering matters"
This one has me curious. I quite often go to car boot sales, autojumbles and such like to see what is there. Time and time again I hear "well they were my dad's tools" and as a rule of thumb children of engineers do not become engineers then they might have no clue what a lot of it is and make offers far below what they could get. I am then getting a fairly impressive toolkit and supplies for a fraction of what it "should" cost. I am never misleading (closest I ever get is "It is too far gone for my liking") and never say something is broken when it is not but there have been a few occasions where I have had some very good fortune.
http://www.bcs.org/category/6030 (the IT on mentioned in the opening)
I would note that section 1 has
"d) promote equal access to the benefits of IT and seek to promote the inclusion of all sectors in society wherever opportunities arise."
http://www.iom3.org/code-conduct
Curious one there
"Where appropriate, this may include access to the knowledge and experience of others, or access to other relevant sources of knowledge, in addition to the member’s own knowledge and experience. In so doing, they must pay due regard to the laws on copyright, and the rights of intellectual property."
Some have resisted the creep of legalese, mainly by being a marginal rewording of the engineering council's basic format (
http://www.engc.org.uk/standards-guidance/guidance/statement-of-ethical-principles/ ).
http://www.icme.org.uk/code-of-conduct.asp
Closest there being a rather nebulous "To treat all persons fairly and with respect." Similar for welding
http://issuu.com/twiltd/docs/professional_rules_and_code_of_cond and another curious one in "act honourably, responsibly and lawfully so as to uphold the reputation, standing and dignity of the profession;" for non destructive testing (
http://www.bindt.org/membership/for-individuals/code-of-conduct/ ).
Curiously the physics and engineering in medicine one (
http://www.ipem.ac.uk/AboutIPEM/JoinIPEM/ProfessionalConduct.aspx , click the bold text, or at time of writing then
http://www.ipem.ac.uk/Portals/0/Doc... Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct.pdf ) was quite far from other medical oaths, things which tend to be taken quite seriously in the medical world.
I was debating whether to make this its own thread but I will go here for now.