Abstract
This Chapter explores the importance of professionalism to ethics. It begins by examining the classic case of McDonnell and Miller, and the ASME, framed in terms of conflicts of interests arising between professionalism and profits. The chapter goes on to describe three ways “profession” has been defined—disabusing readers of common misconceptions—using the “contract model” to explain the relations between professions, society, individual professionals, professional organizations, and ethics, outlining major characteristics of professions on this basis. In terms of this framework, reasons are given for why engineering should and should not be considered a profession, explaining the nature and history of codes of ethics, discussing the ASME code as an example. The chapter ends with a case exploring the rise of engineering professionalism in two of the most populous developing countries, China and India.
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