Blogs

On February 24, NSPE announced that Vincent Sobash, P.E., an emergency management program specialist for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, was named the recipient of the 2011 Federal Engineer of the Year Award. Listen to this audio podcast report...

When Dr. Lisa Fotherby, P.E., won NSPE’s 2010 Federal Engineer of the Year Award , she was beside herself. She, out of the more than 96,000 engineers employed by the federal government according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was being recognized...

As Thinking Engineers, we declare that we will apply the engineering thought process not just to technological advancement, but to the overall betterment of the Self. We are individual contributors to the greater public good to which we all belong. Engineering...

In the United States, medical doctors are licensed by state medical boards to practice medicine. That is all that is needed for state medical boards to be able to carry out their statutory mandate to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by assuring...

Saint George clearly meant business judging by the size of his spear. From any other angle in the courtyard where I was standing, this gigantic statue appeared to simply represent the classic tale of Saint George slaying the dragon—except that upon...

There are two axioms that are often cited regarding the engineering profession. One is that only about 20% of those who graduate with a B.S. in engineering in the U.S. go on to become licensed professional engineers. This one is true. The second, and...

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...