Personal morality is often confused with professional ethics. On the one hand, morality deals with personal convictions of virtuous conduct, independent of community customs or the governing society. On the other hand, ethics consisted of a system of principles of rightness and goodness. The primary obligation and responsibility of civil engineers to society is to exercise engineering ethics. One system to ensure this accountability is to form a professional group of engineers with regulations and exams to ensure quality. Since an engineering license is not required to practice general engineering services, many aspiring engineers do not face immediate pressure to obtain licensure. This downward trend in the number of licensed professional engineers due to lack of encouragement for current future engineers will lead to an unsustainable civil engineering profession; engineers must be licensed before they can be responsible for public safety, as stipulated in the civil engineering code of ethics. The title “engineer” has always been used with great ambiguity. However, legally, individuals must jump through many hoops, including several years of experience and passing an exam issued by the National Board of Surveying and Engineering Examiners. Graduating from an accredited institution, passing a fundamental engineering exam, satisfying work experiences, and finally passing the professional engineer exam are required steps to legally being a professional engineer approved. In May 2009, approximately 2,500 engineers-in-training attempted to obtain professional engineering licensure, and only 900 of them passed. Many future engineering graduates are not well informed about the medium of paper and the welfare of society. Although every engineer is capable of making ethical decisions, licensed engineers are ultimately more educated, more responsible, and more critical in making decisions that are both ethical and productive. Chartered Engineers have always been a prestigious group of individuals and without this they thrive. When the number of licensed engineers becomes insufficient, the engineering firm will no longer become viable, endangering public safety and the code of ethics. Current engineers in training and engineering students must follow the path to becoming a licensed professional engineer. Even though the path to becoming a professional engineer is filled with almost half a decade of training, experiences and exams, it is a necessity, responsibility and obligation of every engineer faced with rapid technological advancements, global competition and new ethical dilemmas..