07/22/2025: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Ethics in Practice: Aligning Professional Conduct with AIA, AICP, ASLA, and NSPE Standards, Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 11am-1pm Eastern

$198.00

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This two-hour webinar is designed for licensed and certified professionals in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering. It provides a focused exploration of professional ethics, emphasizing alignment with the ethical standards of organizations such as the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). Through analysis of relevant codes of ethics, disciplinary case studies, and emerging challenges in practice, participants will reinforce their ethical decision-making skills with particular attention to the protection of health, safety, and welfare (HSW) of the public. The session supports cross-disciplinary understanding and provides tools for maintaining integrity in navigating complex planning and design environments.

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Objectives SME

Course Objectives

Identify shared principles and discipline-specific responsibilities within ethical codes of AIA, AICP, ASLA, and NSPE that are relevant to licensed practice
Apply ethical frameworks to evaluate professional dilemmas involving competing obligations to clients, the public, and the environment, within interdisciplinary project settings
Explain how ethical practice upholds the health, safety, and welfare (HSW) of the public, and recognize situations where unethical decisions may lead to risk or harm
Analyze case studies involving ethical violations or disputes to understand regulatory consequences, reputational impacts, HSW considerations, and the importance of professional accountability
Demonstrate strategies to strengthen ethical culture within professional teams and organizations, fostering leadership, transparency, and public trust in planning and design professions

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Rumanda Young, Ph.D.

Dr. Young is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA) in the state of Texas and a Certified Planner (AICP). She holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture (BLA) from the University of Arkansas, a master’s degree in city and regional planning (MCRP) with environmental planning emphasis from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in urban planning and public policy. Dr. Young also spent time abroad in Cheltenham, England at the University of Gloucestershire focusing on sustainable development practices, environmental planning, and resource management.

Dr. Young has eight years of private practice experience, six of which working with the firm Carter & Burgess, Inc. She was involved in a variety of work including a wide range of park and recreational planning and design projects. Landscape Architectural experience ranges from preparation of detail site design plans, inventory and analysis documents, park, recreation and open space master plans, city-wide comprehensive plans, interpretive prospectus documents, construction document preparation, and preparation of grant applications and rezoning applications for cities throughout Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Dr. Young currently works as a Military Master Planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the Planning, Environmental, and Regulatory Branch. Dr. Young is involved in a variety of work including a wide range of military planning, programming, and design projects. Project Management experience ranges from installation design guides to campus master plans. Projects also focus on the impacts of development on human health and the environment, and improvements through better siting, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of military projects.

Dr. Young is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, School of Architecture. She teaches master’s level landscape architecture design studio course(s).