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Statement of professional ethical obligations made by Canadian engineers

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Recital of the Obligation

Conferral of Iron Ring

Organised byThe Corporation of the Seven WardensWebsiteironring.ca

The Calling of an Engineer (French: l'Engagement de l'ingénieur) is a private ceremony, authored by Rudyard Kipling, in which students about to graduate from an engineering program at a university in Canada are permitted to participate. Participation may also be permitted for Canadian professional engineers or have otherwise qualified academically for registration as a professional engineer (such as through technical examinations). The Calling is administered by a body called The Corporation of the Seven Wardens.[1] As part of the ceremony each participant is conferred the Iron Ring.

History<br>[edit]

H. E. T. Haultain first proposed to create a ceremony emphasizing a standard of ethics for engineers.

Rudyard Kipling authored the original obligation that was recited at the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.

The ceremony, originally a ritual, traces its origins to professor H. E. T. Haultain of the University of Toronto, who believed and persuaded other members of the Engineering Institute of Canada that there needed to be a ceremony and standard of ethics developed for graduating engineers. This was in response to the Quebec Bridge Disaster in which 75 workmen died due to faulty engineering calculations and miscommunication.[2] The ritual was created in 1922 by Rudyard Kipling at the request of Haultain, representing seven past-presidents of the Engineering Institute of Canada.[3][4] The seven past-presidents were the original seven wardens of the corporation.

The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer has been instituted with the simple end of directing the young engineer towards a consciousness of his profession and its significance, and indicating to the older engineer his responsibilities in receiving, welcoming and supporting the young engineers in their beginnings.

— Rudyard Kipling, from notes by Dr. J. Jeswiet[5]

An inaugural ceremony was held in the evening of 25 April 1925, at the University Club of Montreal, when the obligation was taken by six engineers,[note 2] some of whom were involved with Kipling in its development. On 1 May 1925, three of these newly obligated engineers[6] met at the University of Toronto with a number of the officers of the Engineering Alumni Association and obligated 14 of them in the Senate Chamber of the university becoming the first local chapter (referred to as a camp) to do so. Fairbairn met with Harry F. McLean, president of Dominion Construction and Kipling in Montreal at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel to discuss the details of the ritual. Fairbairn later visited McLean at his home in Merrickville, Ontario, to secure a sizeable donation from McLean, philanthropist, on behalf of the Corporation of the Seven Wardens, the custodian and administrator of the ritual, to ensure its survival.

The Calling and the conferring of the Iron Ring continues to be administered by The Corporation of the Seven Wardens Inc./Société des Sept Gardiens inc. through camps[7] associated with the universities granting degrees in engineering in Canada.

Ceremony<br>[edit]

The Calling takes place separately at individual Camps across Canada usually situated near an engineering university. The ceremonies are separate, organised by one of 28 camps of the Corporation of the Seven Wardens for administrative purposes.[citation needed]

The Obligation, which is...