Responsibilities of a consulting engineer

IN CONSIDERING the responsibilities of the consulting engineer, we need first to examine those responsibilities that are the basic obligations of every engineer regardless of whether he may be in that relatively small segment of the profession engaged in consulting practice or whether he may be one of that larger group engaged directly in industry, commerce, research, teaching, government, or the like. After these basic obligations are well understood, we can consider those additional responsibilities that are imposed upon the consulting engineer, particularly those which arise in the consulting engineer's relationship to management.