What is expected of a professional experienced engineer? 

The community has certain expectations of experienced professional engineers, their competence, how they apply this competence and how they will conduct themselves. Experienced professional engineers:

•  understand the requirements of clients, wide ranging stakeholders and of society as a whole
• work to optimize social, environmental and economic outcomes over the full lifetime of the engineering product or program
• interact effectively with other disciplines, professions and people
• ensure that the engineering contribution is properly integrated into the totality of the project, program or process are responsible for: 
  • interpreting technological possibilities to society, business and government 
    • ensuring, as far as possible, that policy decisions are properly informed by possibilities and consequences 
      • ensuring that costs, risks and limitations are properly understood in the context of the desirable outcomes
      • bringing knowledge to bear from multiple sources to develop solutions to complex problems and issues
      • ensuring that technical and non-technical considerations are properly integrated
      • managing risk as well as sustainability issues
      • ensuring that all aspects of a project, program or process are soundly based in theory and fundamental principle
      • for understanding clearly how new developments relate to established practice and experience and to other disciplines with which they may interact.

While the outcomes of engineering generally have physical forms, the work of experienced professional engineers recognizes the interaction between people and technology. Professional engineers may conduct research concerned with advancing the science of engineering and with developing new principles and technologies within a broad engineering discipline. Alternatively, they may contribute to the education of engineers, continual improvement in the practice of engineering and to devising and updating the codes and standards that govern it.