The Magazine for Professional Engineers
Summer 2021

Meeting Today’s Needs With Tomorrow in Mind

As calls to action for supporting sustainable communities ramp up, the engineering profession is being asked to take on a more prominent role in designing infrastructure, technologies, and systems that improve and reduce harm to society. Read more.

Featured Articles

Looking Beyond Either/Or

If engineering is the application of math and science to solve problems, then all engineers have two characteristics: They are practical and they solve problems. However, when facing an ethical quandary, engineers should be wary of relying on binary thinking to make a sound decision. »

Departments & Columns

You Said It

Does Licensing Need a Shake-Up?; The EIT ‘By Experience’ Route

PE Report

NSPE Members Respond to Florida Condo Collapse
Kansas Society Protects PE Qualifications in Licensure Bill
Missouri Society Backs Transportation Funding Bill
Unlicensed Practice Investigations and ‘Free Speech’ Claims Collide in North Carolina
Iowa Approves PE Exam Before Experience
DiscoverE, Congressional STEM Caucus Event Champions Women

Concepts

How To Bring More Disciplines into the PE Community

Legal Beat

Are You on the Hook for a Busted Budget?

On Ethics

Aspiring Global Engineers Require Unique Ethics Training, Study Says
You Be the Judge: The Ethics of Extending, Receiving Credit

Leading Insight

Rice University Launches Engineering Leadership Master’s Degree
Emerging Leaders Set to Begin Training Program

PE Community

Construction: Thoughts on an Emerging Standard of Care Regarding Climate Change
Education: Engineering’s Three Career Options: Let’s Be Clear
Government: As Traffic Fatalities Rise, NTSB Calls for Holistic Strategy
Government: NTSB Chair Retires; Reminded PEs of Obligations After Bridge Collapse
Private Practice: Deteriorating Highway System Needs Restoration, Report Says
Private Practice: With New Law in Place, Ohio Hopes for Safer Summer at Amusement Parks

NSPE Now

Learn, Connect, Excel at Virtual PE Conference
Outstanding PEs Honored as Fellows
Member Takes Helm as A&M President
NICET Launches First In-Building Communications Certification
In Memoriam: Jack Hinton, P.E., F.NSPE and Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E., F.NSPE
Outlook: The Future of the Engineering Profession Is in Our Hands
Policy Perspectives: What Is Infrastructure? Congress, Administration Debate Definitions

PEople

NSPE people on the move

Variables

Educators Explain: Extreme Temps and Infrastructure