ABSTRACT
The ethics or standards of conduct of any profession or group are very largely the reflection in action of its ideals. The moment ideals become fixed or static they are dead. This is the law of life. Someone has said that an artist is one who holds ideals up before the people. If there is to be any significance in the term "profession" surely all professional men must qualify in this respect as artists. And engineers seem to be moving in this direction. About one hundred years ago when the British Institute of Engineers was founded, engineering was defined as "the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man." Engineering is the science of controlling the forces and of utilizing the materials of nature for the benefit of man, and the art of organizing and of directing human activities in connection therewith.
