Professional Documents
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What is a Profession
In early times profession referred to a free act of
commitment to a way of life
Has come to mean The occupation which one
professes to be skilled in and to follow A vocation
in which professed knowledge of some branch of
learning is used in its application to the affairs of
others, or in the practice of an art based upon it.
(Oxford Dictionary)
Engineering Ethics: Concepts & Cases defines five
characteristics that are useful in distinguishing
professions from nonprofessional occupations.
Professional Ethics