The document outlines the role and responsibilities of chartered engineers, comparing them to scientists and emphasizing the importance of engineering in society. It discusses the necessary competencies, ethical obligations, and social responsibilities of engineers, including public safety and sustainable practices. Additionally, it highlights the professional conduct expected from engineers and their various job functions within the engineering field.

1. Engineerin
g Practices
s
Eng P.W. Sarath
B.Sc. Eng.(Moratuwa
C.Eng., FIE(SL), IntPE, MIET, SMIEEE

2. Executive Summary
• What is Engineering / Who is a Chartered
engineer-
• Engineer Vs Scientist
• Roles , Responsibilities and Functions of a
Chartered Engineer
• Competencies required to be a professional
Engineer
• Codes of Conduct

3. Defining Engineering
• ENGINEERING is the profession
in which a knowledge of the
mathematical and natural sciences
gained by study, experience, and
practice is applied with judgment
to develop ways to utilize
economically the materials and
forces of nature for the benefit of
mankind.

4. Engineer Vs Scientist
The scientist discovers the theories to explain
the existing phenomena in our environment.
Engineer innovates devices/solutions using the
discoveries what scientist have come across.
Or
Engineers use applications for solving the
problems of living beings. Accordingly Engineers
will bring the benefits to the society through
their applications
v “Scientists study the world as it is,
engineers create the world that
never has been”
(Theodore Von Karman)
v “Engineering is the application of
science to the common purpose of
life”
(Count
Rumford)

5. Society Vs Engineer
People in general living together in
community
They demand goods and services with following
values as deliverables from Engineers
Reliability
• Safety and Security
• Standards
• Economy

6. Competencies Required to become a Chartered
Engineer
Knowledge and
understanding of
Engineering Principles
Design and
development of
processes, systems,
services and products
Responsibility,
management or
leadership
Communication and
inter-personal skills
Professional
commitment

7. Role of
an
Enginner
• Apply reasoning informed
by contextual knowledge to
assess societal, health,
safety, legal and cultural
issues and the consequent
responsibilities relevant to
professional engineering
practice and solutions to
complex engineering
problems.

8. Role ,
Responsibili
ties and
functions of
an
Engineer
Engineering profession
should place priority on
public safety and interest
over others.
Accountable for the
conduct for well being of
others in the society and
impact of their work on
society
Any Engineer is
requested to make
determined efforts
to discuss all of
the relevant facts.
(a)
design
(b)
develo
pment
(c)
deploy
ment
(d) all
possibl
e
outco
mes

9. Social
Responsibilitie
s of Engineers
• Ensure the safety and well-being of the public
• Ensure that society’s funds and resources
concerning technology are well used
• Refusing to work on a particular project or for a
particular company
• Speaking out publicly against a proposed project
• Blowing the whistle on illegality or wrong-doing
• Professional Societies’ obligation to provide
protection for whistleblowers
• Individual and organizational concern about the
impact of engineering projects on society
• Contributing one’s services to worthy, non-profit
groups and projects
• Ccommitment to educating future engineers about
their social responsibilities

10. Social
Responsibilitie
s of Engineers
• Commitment of risk assessment experts to ethical
risk/safety assessments
• Voluntarily assume the task of educating the public
about important on sequences of various
technological and scientific developments
• Commitment of engineers to design and develop
sustainable technologies
• Provide expert advice to non-experts
• Explicit care and concern about technology’s impact
on Nature and the Environment
• Abiding by the principles of sustainable
development when thinking about engineering
designs
• Abiding by the “precautionary principle” when
thinking about engineering designs
• In engineering design, engineers have practiced
social responsibility by applying actors of safety to
their designs and by building in redundancy

11. Benefits for Being
an Engineer
• Job satisfaction
• Variety of career opportunities
• Challenging work
• Intellectual development
• Benefit society
• Financial Security
• Prestige
• Professional environment
• Technological and scientific discovery
• Creative Thinking

12. Rules of
Conduct
( by Laws)
• Any Engineer shall at all times uphold the
dignity and reputation of their profession,
act with fairness , Integrity towards every
one with whom there work is connected
and towards other members and safe
guard the public interest in matters of
health, safety, the environment and
otherwise.( values : integrity fairness,
Health, safety and Risk and Environmental
sustainability)

13. Rules of
Conduct
• Persons in any Category of Engineers, in
addition excersise their professional skill
and judgments the best of their ability
and discharge their professional
responsibilities with integrity. They shall
encourage the vocational progress of
those in their professional
charge.(Integrity and competence)

14. Role of
an
Engineer
Team leader
Manager
Repesenataive
Motivator
Planner
Decdion maker
Obliging to Rules and Regulations

15. Responsibilities • To over see entire opeartions
undertaken by him and ensure
that results will be timely
delivered mainataining economies
of scale , adhering to safety
standards , complying with
regulations , optimising the
resourses without compromising
over all Quality .

16. Catogories of
Responsibilities
Network Palnning and
Design
Project Implemenation
Opeartion and
Mainatainace
Reasearch and
Development

17. Key Job
Functions
Plannning and budgeting over all
key activities based on corporate
goals.
Communicate and allocate recourses
to staff and assigning the targets
derived from the corporate Goals.
Ensure that processes are well
established and apply the changes
wherever necessary
Allcation of resources to the staff

18. Key Job
Functions
Review the progress in regular intervals to
compare the expeced results vs actual
results
Organise competency Development
Programmes for both technical and non
technical staff .
Looking after well being of staff and their
families
Performance appraisal for process and staff
Staff counselling and Coaching

19. Legislative
Requirements
Engineering Council Act
04/2017
IESL Act
Safety and Factory Ordinance
Insutrial Dispute act
Enviromental Regulations