ECOR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Professional Engineers Ontario, Liability Insurance

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Engineering Common Core Courses
• Course: ECOR 1010
• Professor: Glen Mc Rae

Document Summary

All recognized professional bodies organize themselves into self-governing self selected professional societies or associations (peo) that possess special skills and provide it. Licensed professional have an exclusive legal right to practice, no one else does. (government and society granted) Provincial jurisdiction in canada: professional engineers act, by state in the usa, professional engineering is defined in the act. Society expects: responsibility, accountability, no unreasonable errors or omissions that involve public safety, Pe: they design, compose, evaluate, advise, report, direct, supervise, where public safety is concerned and requires application of engineering principles (not natural science) Enforces use of the title professional engineer and p. eng. It is your professional duty to understand and abide by the code of ethics to the very best of your ability. Part of regulation 941 of the professional engineers act in ontario. Society and the environment: the engineer"s employer or clients. Other professional obligations arise from: technical standards and protocols, business and corporate practice.