Specific professional knowledge and skills are required in engineering practice. The core competency of an engineer is to solve complex problems, and this book shows how complexity arises. The applications of this to professional practice are sketched out. Career guidance is provided for entry into the engineering profession. Entry requirements for chartered professional engineer are described, from the New Zealand perspective.

Ethics is the practical application of wisdom in professional practice, and this book shows how. The engineering profession requires its members to behave ethically. However the resulting rules and codes of conduct can be abstract and difficult for engineers to understand and apply to their personal situation. This book starts in Part 1 by identifying why ethics is important (because judgement is require to solve complex problems), and explains how corruption occurs. It then summarises the...