The Obligation

The Obligation is to be said aloud with all other candidates during the Ceremony proceedings:

 

I, ___[your name]___ in the presence of these my mentors and my peers in my calling, pledge on my honour and cold iron that, to the best of my knowledge and power, I will not tolerate or pass, or participate in the passing of, bad workmanship or faulty material in all that concerns my works as an engineer or in my dealings with my own conscience, before the world.

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My time I will offer freely; my thought I will openly share; my care I will fully apply, towards the honour, use, stability and perfection of any works to which I may be called to set my hand.

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My fair wages for that work I will openly take. My reputation in my calling I will honourably guard; but I will not attempt to manipulate, obscure judgment or seek personal gain from anyone with whom I may deal. And further, I will diligently strive against professional jealousy or the belittling of my working colleagues, in any field of their labour.

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For my assured failures and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand of my mentors and my peers in my calling here assembled; believing that in the hour of my temptations, weakness and weariness, the memory of this, my obligation, and of the company before whom it was declared, may return to me to aid, comfort and restrain.