Professional Ethics for Texas Engineers - Revised for 2008
Course No. L-2007	Back to Ethics Courses
Credit: 2 PDH
Course Fee: $57.90
John P. Greaney, P.E.

Attention New York Engineers:

This course cannot be taken to fulfill your continuing education requirements for the state of New York since the course does not fall under the category of "Areas of Practice" or "Laws / Rules." For more information, check the New York State Board Requirements.

Overview

Under the Texas Engineering Practice Act each engineer licensed in the state must spend at least one professional development hour each year reviewing professional ethics and the roles and responsibilities for Engineers.

In this course the student will study pages 49-64 of the Texas Engineering Practice Act and Board Rules (December 2007 revision) and review some of the recent disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers to enforce the Practice Act. A fifteen-question quiz will test his or her understanding of the subject.

Attention Texas Engineers: If you have taken PDHengineer course L-2001 Professional Ethics for Texas Engineers within the past two years, this revised course should not be taken for PDH credit. A list of other course to meet your state requirement is here.

 

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• The engineer’s duty to protect the public.
• The engineer’s duty to limit practice to his or her field of competence
• The Texas law on competitive bidding for engineering services.
• Knowledge of how the Board administers the Texas Engineering Practice Act.
• The engineer’s duty to make objective and truthful statements.

 

Course

Click on the following link to the PDF document to review the course material before taking the quiz for credit.

Texas Engineering Ethics 2008

 

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