Blogs

PE Licensing and Nuclear Energy

NSPE Executive Director Larry Jacobson presented the below statement on August 31 to the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Technology Subcommittee of the Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future . President Obama directed...

Posted to PE Journal by Michael Hardy, P.E., F.NSPE on Thu, Sep 2 2010

Filed under: energy, licensing, nuclear

A Win-Win-Win for Texas Engineers

Take this for what it is, the opinion of one person who is not from Texas, and for what little it may be worth because of that. Texas engineers are currently discussing an initiative of structural engineers in Texas to establish discipline-specific licensure...

Posted to PE Licensing by Craig Musselman, P.E., F.NSPE on Mon, Aug 30 2010

Filed under: licensing, structural engineering

A Zero Option for the Gulf?

Now that BP has successfully capped the well and new oil is no longer spilling out into the Gulf, we turn our attention to cleanup. I, like many of you, are disgusted that this accident ever occurred and want to see BP pay for the grievous mistakes that...

Posted to Sustainability in Engineering by Brad Aldrich, P.E., F.NSPE on Thu, Aug 26 2010

Filed under: oil spill

PE Magazine Interviewed on C-SPAN Radio

C-SPAN Radio interviewed PE magazine staff writer Ben Roode on August 12, following a meeting of a committee that is conducting a technical analysis of the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The committee was...

Posted to PE Journal by Michael Hardy, P.E., F.NSPE on Mon, Aug 16 2010

Filed under: NAE, Gulf oil spill

Who's a Professional Engineer?

An article in the upcoming August/September issue of PE magazine highlights the ongoing confusion over the meaning of "professional engineer" and "professional engineering." Here's the text of the article: NSPE Objects to NASA’s...

Posted to PE Journal by Michael Hardy, P.E., F.NSPE on Thu, Aug 12 2010

Filed under: licensing

LeChâtlier’s Passport: Working Across Cultures

Recently at a dinner in a “small” Chinese town of just under three million people, I sat around a table with colleagues representing seven countries, speaking Mandarin Chinese, English, French, Korean, Flemish, German, Russian, and Dutch....

Posted to Young Engineers by Austin Lin on Wed, Aug 11 2010

Filed under: travel, international, career development

Gulf Oil Spill Top Kill

Let us all hope that BP has finally been successful in halting the most significant oil spill in U.S. history. It’s interesting to follow the recent media coverage which seems to be shifting to a much less vitriolic view of the incident. While we...

Posted to Sustainability in Engineering by Brad Aldrich, P.E., F.NSPE on Wed, Aug 4 2010

Filed under: Gulf oil spill

Why is Mentoring Important for Engineers?

Welcome to the Mentoring Blog. Our goal is to provide a forum for mentors and mentees to meet, interact, and share ideas. Many engineers in industry have formal mentoring programs that often last for a year with the same mentor and mentee, and then they...

Posted to Mentoring Blog by William J. Bezdek, P.E. on Tue, Jun 29 2010

Filed under: mentoring

NSPE Statement on Gulf Oil Spill

Earlier today, NSPE Executive Director Larry Jacobson issued a statement about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the crucial role played by professional engineers in preventing similar disasters in the future. Below is the statement in its entirety...

Posted to Sustainability in Engineering by Brad Aldrich, P.E., F.NSPE on Mon, Jun 28 2010

Filed under: Gulf oil spill, Larry Jacobson

Japan and a Metaphysical Sense of Seismic Engineering

Hello from a shinkansen bullet train, tearing through the Japanese countryside at 300 kilometers per hour. The thorough network of public transportation in Japan continues to embody the aphorism that time waits for no one and that these rockets-on-land...

Posted to Young Engineers by Austin Lin on Mon, Jun 28 2010

Filed under: Japan, industry excellence

Letter to a (Graduating) Young Engineer

Dear Recently Minted Engineering Graduate, I use the term “minted” not lightly, but as an indication of value and of stability. Just as the strength of a currency defines the economic stability of a country, the strength of your skills, having...

Posted to Young Engineers by Austin Lin on Wed, May 19 2010

Filed under: career development

NSPE Adopts Position Statement on Engineering Education Outcomes

At its April 2010 Board of Directors meeting, NSPE adopted a new position statement advocating that certain engineering education outcomes be attained by engineers of all disciplines who become licensed professional engineers. These outcomes, listed below...

Posted to PE Licensing by Craig Musselman, P.E., F.NSPE on Wed, May 5 2010

Filed under: education, NCEES, ABET, licensing, leadership

An Energy-Efficient Partnership

As part of our expanding focus on sustainability and responsible energy consumption, NSPE has partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency to support and promote the Energy Star program’s energy efficiency certification for commercial buildings...

Posted to Sustainability in Engineering by Brad Aldrich, P.E., F.NSPE on Wed, Apr 21 2010

Filed under: energy, Energy Star

The Recession-Proof Engineer

In March of 1970, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) presented the concept of a CORElator: certain scientists with the technical background to expand and apply their skill-sets across multiple disciplines. In 2003, then editor-in-chief of C&EN...

Posted to Young Engineers by Austin Lin on Mon, Apr 19 2010