Agenda

Registration:                    2:00 – 2:30 pm

Seminar:                         2:30 – 4:30 pm

Complying with Professional Codes of Ethics
and Standards of Professional Responsibility
Identifying Ethical Issues and Creating a Framework for Resolution

   • Protecting public health, safety and welfare
   • Working in areas of competence
   • Acting faithfully on behalf of clients and employers
   • Avoiding deceptive acts
   • Maintaining confidentiality
   • Avoiding and dealing with conflicts of interest

Analyzing and Applying Professional Ethics and Standards of
Professional Conduct to Real Life Case Studies

   • National Society of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics
   • American Society of Civil Engineers
   • American Society of Mechanical Engineering
   • Compare and contrast American Institute of Architects Code of Ethics

Examining Licensing Laws and Regulations

   • Focus on common and some not so common statutory and
      regulatory provisions from Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey,
      New York and Pennsylvania
   • Applying the regulatory and statutory provisions to actual cases

Reviewing Court Decisions, Engineering Licensing Board
Adjudications, and Association Ethics Board Opinions,
Which Shape Professional Ethical Standards

Credits

These seminars provide
professional engineers with
2.0 ethics PDHs in Maryland,
New Jersey, New York, and
Pennsylvania and 3.0 ethics
PDHs in Delaware.

Continuing Education Credit Information

Each of these seminars are open to the public and offers ethics PDHs/continuing education hours to professional engineers in all states, which includes 2.0 hours in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania and 3.0 hours in Delaware. Engineers seeking continuing education in states without ethics requirements can apply these hours to their general continuing education requirement.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No.24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.

Attendance will be monitored and attendance certificates will be mailed to all participants after the seminar. HalfMoon Education will report attendance for Florida engineers.

Speakers

Anthony Potter

Offit Kurman Attorneys at Law

Anthony Potter focuses his practice on representation of design professionals in all phases of the construction process including contracting, risk allocation, pre-claim resolution, mediation, arbitration, and construction litigation. He provides counsel and representation to architects, engineers, and others on administrative law questions including professional licensing matters. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Civil Engineering and Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology Programs at Penn State Harrisburg. Mr. Potter is frequently called upon to provide seminars for design professionals and architectural and engineering students on loss prevention, standard form construction contract documents, construction litigation, professional licensing and professional ethics. He has represented clients before administrative agencies, the Commonwealth Court, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Previously, Mr. Potter was assistant general counsel to Governor Tom Ridge.