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From Ethics to Innovation:
A Common Code
By John C. Havens
What does ethics mean to you?
While we all hold certain values close to our heart that drive our daily interactions and relationships, sometimes the
word, "ethics" can feel somewhat distant. For some, it conjures visions of Greek philosophers from generations past
who provided fascinating theories on how the world works that my now seem outdated or irrelevant. For others,
ethics can be a stressful term with legal and compliance connotations involving potential Public Relations situations
involving employee behavior.
But for engineers, Codes of Ethics have guided the safe and beneficial creation of technology for decades. Codes like
these provide deep links to the valued traditions and culture created by engineers passionately caring for the societies
they help to build. They also provide guidelines to help avoid unintended consequences based on the inevitable and
unfortunate accidents that sometimes occur. These situations are often the ones at the top of engineer's minds as
they design and manufacture the products and systems driving our lives today.
These types of issues have provided fundamental inspiration for key leaders within IEEE to become engineers, like
Gordon Day, 2012 President and CEO of IEEE and longtime Eta Kappa Nu who stated the following in an interview
for this article:
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