Sociotechnology IEEE Code of Ethics: In response to the members´ mandate, a set of guidelines on professional relationships is presented

In an important action, the IEEE Board of Directors adopted an IEEE Code of Ethics for Engineers at its meeting of December 4, 1974. The new code resulted from the combined efforts of a number of volunteer Committees and Boards within IEEE, specifically the United States Activities Board (USAB), USAB´s Ethics and Employment Practices Committee, the Executive Committee and its ad hoc Committee on Ethics, and the Board of Directors. In addition, expert views were obtained from the Committee on Social Implications of Technology and many other IEEE organizational units.