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Show uu ELECTRBAL ENGINEERS' CODE OFraiMCIPLES NEW YORK, March 29 The board of directors of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ' adopted at their last meeting a code of principles princi-ples of professional conduct. The code was compiled and submitted to the board by a committee consisting of George F. Sever, consulting engineer, engi-neer, H. W. Buck, consulting engineer. engi-neer. Col. Samuel Rober, signal corps, U. S. A.; Dr. Charles P. Stelnmets, consulting engineer of the General Electric company, Honry G. Scott, superintendent of motive poyer of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, com-pany, of New York City, and Dr. Schuyler S. Wheeler, president of lha Crocker-Wheeler company. The, movement for the adoption of Buch a code was Initiated by Dr. Wheoler, who is a past president of the Amor- lean Institute ot Electrical Engineers, f He delivered an address on "Engl- neering Honor" at the twenty-third annual convention of that body in Milwaukee, Wis., May 28, 1906. Immediately Im-mediately after tho delivery of the address a committeo was appointed to draw up the code. The code, as adopted, covers the general principles by which every electrical engineer Bhould be guided, the engineer's relations to client or employer, the ownership of engineering engineer-ing records and data, tho engineer's iclatlons to tho public, and the engineer's engi-neer's relations to the Engineering Fraternity. Under the first head It prescribes the highest standards of honor, Under the second it advocates absolute frankness at all times in tho complexity of relations in which any engineer may be involved through having interests, financial or otherwise, other-wise, in several different directions. Under the third It makes plain tho matter of ownership of engineering records or data which aro tho property prop-erty of either the engineer or Mb client according to tho .different circumstances cir-cumstances under which they were created. Tho fourth division points out the duty of the enginepr to assist as-sist tho public to a fair and correct genoral understanding of engineering rnattors and to extend tho genoral knowledge of engineering and also the advisability of conducting" technical techni-cal discussions and publishing first accounts of inventions in the technical techni-cal press. The last dUision advocates co-operatioa among engineers, mu-1 tnal protection nBnln'nt mlsrcprcsen- |