Professionalism: Let’s Get It Right

Scientific Professions and their Societies
Professional scientific societies combine a number of key attributes. They advance and promote the knowledge base of science and technology and in so doing serve the public interest. They set standards of educational training, of competence, and of ethical professional conduct. They assist their members in lifelong career development and concern themselves with attracting and educating new entrants into the field.

Is IFT a professional scientific societ…