Take the 2021 Milton F. Lunch Ethics Contest Challenge!
Match your wits and knowledge of engineering ethics with experienced professional engineers and engineering students throughout the country! All current NSPE individual members through their NSPE state societies and NSPE chapters (including student chapters) are invited to participate in the 2021 NSPE Milton F. Lunch Ethics Contest.
NSPE state societies and local chapters are encouraged to consider utilizing this contest as a state or chapter activity to generate member discussion and spur greater interest in engineering ethics.
This year NSPE will provide the author of the winning entry an award of $2,000, a certificate, and recognition in PE magazine.
How to Participate
This year, NSPE’s Board of Ethical Review is furnishing you with three key ethical issues. You are to select one and develop a submission (video, photo essay, poster, written essay, or PowerPoint presentation not to exceed 1,000 words) that expresses your views and demonstrates an understanding of the ethical issues involved. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to consider and cite in the submission the NSPE Code of Ethics and previous NSPE Board of Ethical Review opinions. The BER Case Search Database, the NSPE Ethics Reference Guide, and the NSPE Ethics Study Guide might also be helpful to you.
Contest Rules
All submission entries must be received by Monday, April 26, 2021. Email or mail entries to:
2021 NSPE Milton F. Lunch Ethics Contest
NSPE Legal Department
1420 King Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-2794
E-mail: legal@nspe.org
About Milton F. Lunch
Milton F. ("Milt") Lunch, NSPEs general counsel from the 1940s until the 1980s was critical to the establishment of the NSPE Board of Ethical Review and the development of the NSPE Code of Ethics in the 1950s. During his tenure as NSPE general counsel, Milt presented numerous papers and authored influential articles about the importance of licensure, ethics, and professionalism. He passed away in 2001.