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Instructor:  Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., F.NSPE, Dist.M.ASCE

Course Length: 1.5 Hours

"Good spectrum of ethical examples. Very useful."

Purpose and Background

This webinar offers practical ideas and information to help you navigate those often choppy and sometimes turbulent ethical waters so that you can earn trust.

Busy and sometimes harried engineers and other technical professionals frequently encounter varied ethical situations. These challenges may involve issues such as: deciding who is to blame, determining if contractual requirements have been met, utilization of sensitive information, claims of expertise, billing of time, negative impact on the environment, giving and accepting gifts, and treatment of employees. Some ethical issues are readily resolved and others require careful analysis. This 90-minute webinar focuses on the latter by offering practical ideas and information to help you navigate those often choppy and sometimes turbulent ethical waters.

Ethics is pragmatic, it is all about earning trust which we can take to the bank, figuratively and literally. In combination with our technical and non-technical expertise, ethical behavior is essential to earning and keeping the trust of colleagues and those we serve. Webinar participants receive a detailed handout on which the webinar will draw. The handout includes references to articles, books, e-newsletters, websites, and other self-study materials such as 10 ethics case studies.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize that trust must be earned - it cannot be bought
• Determine the 4 legal-ethical quadrants
• Identify 5 techniques for resolving ethical issues
• Appreciate common elements among professional society ethics codes

Webinar Benefits

• Obtain ethics tools for individual and group use
• Earn more trust
• Increase awareness of ethical issues in your organization
• Protect your and your employer's reputation
• Reduce stress
• Advance your career
• Obtain 10 ethics case studies for post-webinar use

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

This webinar ideas and tips apply to professional, personal, family, and community aspects of our lives such as..

• Students who want to deal proactively and intelligently with ethical issues ranging from readily resolved to very complex
• Individuals in the business, government, academic, and volunteer sectors

Webinar Outline

• A practical, process-oriented definition of ethics
• The personal values challenge - the ethics scale
• Who are we cheating?
• The practical benefit of ethical behavior
• Starts at the top: Low cost and high impact
• Ethical and legal domain
• Codes: Employer and professional society
• Using codes
• Advice of experienced personnel
• 9-step procedure
• Elimination process
• Using moral imagination
• Case studies
• Resources for additional study

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]