Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

The IET is the UK’s largest professional engineering institution. IDEA developed a suite of CPD materials – the ‘Ethics Zone’ – for IET members in 2008. Since then, we have also run an annual face-to-face CPD course and developed three online courses for the IET Academy.

“The IET employed the services of the IDEA Centre to assist with the development of thought-provoking case studies for our members…. We wanted to provide a support service for our members, who may face ethical dilemmas in an engineering context, and so developed a series of resources with the central aim of helping members to relate the rules of conduct to their everyday lives as practising engineers. The experts at the Centre helped with summarising the learning points from each case study and relating them back to the specific rules of conduct which require that particular element of professional behaviour. We are absolutely delighted with the case studies and judging by the web stats our members also greatly appreciate the resource.”

Anne Fitzsimons, Membership Manager, the IET