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Engineers
By W. M. Kim Roddis
PhD, PE, F.ASCE
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Distributed responsibility:
design/fabrication/construction
what to do?
Introspection
Communication
Role
of engineers in industry
Ethics of organizations
Ethical responsibilities of the profession
Engineering Institute
Fundamental Principles
Fundamental Principles
1. using their knowledge and skill for the
enhancement of human welfare and the
environment;
2. being honest and impartial and serving with
fidelity the public, their employers and clients;
3. striving to increase the competence and
prestige of the engineering profession; and
4. supporting the professional and technical
societies of their disciplines.
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Fundamental Canons
1. Engineers shall hold paramount the safety,
health and welfare of the public and shall
strive to comply with the principles of
sustainable developmentfootnote in the
performance of their professional duties.
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Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development is the process of applying
natural, human, and economic resources to
enhance the safety, welfare, and quality of life for
all of the society while maintaining the availability
of the remaining natural resources.
Triple bottom line
Planet
People
Profit
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Fundamental Canons
2. Engineers shall perform services only in
areas of their competence.
3. Engineers shall issue public statements
only in an objective and truthful manner.
4. Engineers shall act in professional matters
for each employer or client as faithful agents
or trustees, and shall avoid conflicts of
interest.
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Fundamental Canons
5. Engineers shall build their professional
reputation on the merit of their services and
shall not compete unfairly with others.
6. Engineers shall act in such a manner as to
uphold and enhance the honor, integrity, and
dignity of the engineering profession and
shall act with zero-tolerance for bribery,
fraud, and corruption.
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Fundamental Canons
7. Engineers shall continue their professional
development throughout their careers, and
shall provide opportunities for the
professional development of those
engineers under their supervision.
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Do you recognize?
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Do you recognize?
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Citicorp: Professional
Citicorp Building NYC completed 1977
William LeMessurier, NAE
New Yorker Magazine, ASCE, AISC
Quartering winds susceptibility
Teaching Engineering Ethics
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Citicorp: Personal
AY76-77 MIT Course in Building Design
taught by William LeMessurier
Friends, GTA, LeMessurier Consultants,
Inc., Cambridge MA
New Yorker Magazine subscription
Caroline Whitbeck
John Reed
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Unfold
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Direct Wind
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Quartering Wind
Superposition
(linear)
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Sequence of events 1
1977 Citicorp Building completed
1978 May welds to bolts (WJL)
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Welds to Bolts
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Distributed responsibility:
design/fabrication/construction
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Sequence of events 2
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Sequence of events 3
1978 July 24 LMI calcs direct wind only
(WJL)
ALSO bolted w/o AISC code column
allowance (WJL)
Calcs raise concern (WJL)
Tuned Mass Damper
Sway
Strength
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Sequence of events 3
1978 July 26 Davenport mtg re wind tests
1978 July 27 colleague and spouse
1978 July 28 retreat (calc,eval)
1978 July 30 16 year storm
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what to do?
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Sequence of events 4
1978 July 31 (WJL) -> Stubbins
/ Stubbins -> Stubbins lawyer
Stubbins lawyer -> LCI insurer
August 1, 1978 mtg w lawyers
Lawyers -> Leslie Robertson
Disaster management
August 2, Notify Citicorp
John
Reed
Walter Wriston
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Sequence of events 5
Aug 2 Walter Wriston authorization fixes
Emergency generators
Aug 3 welding firm contract
Aug 4 contracts
TMD
Strain-gaging
Weather experts
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Sequence of events 6
Aug 7 repair dwgs to contractor
Aug 8 press release
Aug 8 mtg building & emergency officials
Aug 9 newspaper strike began 6pm
Repairs in progress
Full peer review of structure
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Sequence of events 7
Sept 1 Hurricane Ella
Sept 13 weather watch ended
Sept 13 Citicorp claims filed
Oct repairs complete
$2 million liability insurance
no litigation
no increase in rates
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Take-aways
1. Engineering analysis and design skills directly
apply to ethical problem solving.
2. Professional procedures and practices can be
designed and implemented so that they
reinforce, rather than place obstacles in the way
of, moral action.
3. Engineers shall hold paramount the safety,
health and welfare of the public and shall strive
to comply with the principles of sustainable
development in the performance of their
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professional duties.
Additional illustrations
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LeMessurier
Citicorp
"You have a social obligation," LeMessurier reminds
his students. "In return for getting a license and being
regarded with respect, you're supposed to be selfsacrificing and look beyond the interests of yourself
and your client to society as a whole. And the most
wonderful part of my story is that when I did it nothing
bad happened."
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