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The iron ring ceremony is a milestone event in Canadian engineering, intended to welcome new engineers to the profession, build community, and reinforce engineers’ ethical responsibilities. After a review of the ceremony was announced in 2022, engineers engaged in discussions around the reasons for, and nature of, potential changes. In this chapter, we examine public online discourse among members of the Canadian engineering community around proposed updates to the ceremony. We find that commenters framed the larger questions of if/how the iron ring ceremony should be revised in different ways: as a debate about the relative importance of tradition and progress in engineering; a discussion of the profession’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and a question of individual and collective engineering responsibility. By studying how engineers participate in conversations about their profession, we learn how they perceive the bounds of their ethical responsibilities.

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Divergent Attitudes Toward Ethics and Collective Responsibility in Canadian Engineering Discourse

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    2026年

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  • Kari Zacharias,
  • Robyn Mae Paul

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The iron ring ceremony is a milestone event in Canadian engineering, intended to welcome new engineers to the profession, build community, and reinforce engineers’ ethical responsibilities. After a review of the ceremony was announced in 2022, engineers engaged in discussions around the reasons for, and nature of, potential changes. In this chapter, we examine public online discourse among members of the Canadian engineering community around proposed updates to the ceremony. We find that commenters framed the larger questions of if/how the iron ring ceremony should be revised in different ways: as a debate about the relative importance of tradition and progress in engineering; a discussion of the profession’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and a question of individual and collective engineering responsibility. By studying how engineers participate in conversations about their profession, we learn how they perceive the bounds of their ethical responsibilities.