Welcome to NSPE's PE Institute!

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The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) is committed to creating a world where the public can be confident that engineering decisions affecting their lives are made by qualified and ethically accountable professionals. As a recognized and authoritative expert in engineering licensure, ethics, and professional practice, NSPE provides the knowledge and tools necessary to become licensed and to remain current with changes in technology, law, regulation, and engineering topics affecting society. The PE Institute serves as NSPE's premier center for continuing education for professional engineers to keep their skills relevant and learn new information to support their success in the industry. 

FREE LIVE EVENTS: 2023 NSPE Women's Leadership Virtual Fall Symposium

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Join us over lunch for these live, one-time events to hear from experts in the field and join your colleagues in these important discussions organized by NSPE’s Women Leadership Program Task Force. This exclusive package is free to NSPE members and non-members and includes all three live sessions. The sessions will NOT be recorded.

The Cost of Leadership
October 12, 2023, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Leading Yourself: Learning to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
October 19, 2023, 1:00 pm - 2;00 pm EST

Networking Strategies: An Unconventional Approach to Connecting with Others
October 26, 2023, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

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NSPE DEI Corner

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at NSPE is not just a buzz phrase, nor did it appear overnight. NSPE DEI initiatives were set in motion more than four years ago by leaders of the Society and continues to be a strategic focus as affirmed by the NSPE Strategic Plan. 

Take a look at a selection of NSPE webinars dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion. These webinars are FREE to NSPE members.

Best Practices to Increase Diversity in Your Organization 

Strauder Patton IV, PE, PMP & Kerrie Greenfelder, PE, BCEE, DBIA

Engineering: Addressing Unintended Consequences as a Professional 

Richard B. Easley, CAPP, President, E-Squared 

Navigating Unconscious Bias: Strategies for Success 

Jenna P. Carpenter, Ph.D.

NSPE's WORKability Wednesdays

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Would colleagues consider you workable? How easy is it for you to mold, flow, and bend in today’s work environment? Is your knowledge up-to-date and relevant? NSPE's webinar series, WORKability Wednesdays, is FREE to NSPE members and covers topics impacting the industry and helps to enhance your competencies in the profession. 

Consult your state licensing board to determine requirements for PDH or CPD credits.

2023 Fall Webinar Series - FREE to NSPE Members

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Wed, Sep 27 at 2:00 pm EDT
What Utilities Want Fleets to Know About Moving to Electric Vehicles

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Experience Level: Any level of experience

I'll be helping the audience understand what to consider, from the utility perspective, when electrifying a fleet. I can help the audience understand what information the utility can offer and good questions to ask when starting the electrification journey. The attendees should take away a good list of questions to ask their utility, possible information and help a utility can offer and how to be prepared to engage with the utility when they are ready to move to electric vehicles. After the presentation the audience will be well versed in the utility's perspective on electric vehicles and the important role the utility has when business want to electrify their fleet. I will also discuss why it is important to bring the utility into the planning process as early as possible.  

Learning Outcomes:

1. Why talk to the utility early
2. What questions to ask the utility to be most prepared
3. What information to be prepared to provide to the utility
4. What information can the utility provide to a business when thinking about electrifying
5. Utility things to consider when electrifying (cost, billing, charging off peak, interconnection agreements, energy efficiency, etc)

1 PDH (NY Approval Pending)

Pricing:

NSPE Members: FREE

Non-members: $75.00 (Join NSPE today and save on this purchase.)

To register, add this webinar to your shopping cart and check-out in the NSPE e-store

Speaker(s)

Jennifer Deaton, MBA, Manager Corporate Strategy and Electrification

Wed, Oct 11 at 2:00 pm EDT
What Your PE Signature and Stamp Says to Your Stakeholders

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Experience Level: Any level of experience

This presentation intends to help both PEs and non-PEs best understand what it means for a PE to sign and stamp their work.

Each state will have specific requirements for placement of PE stamp, information to include with a PE Signature and other expected formats. This presentation seeks to inform an audience not currently involved in the PE Signature and Stamp process on the general nature of the process, from what to expect when signing, what the PE Signature and Stamp demonstrates when complete, and what to consider when assuming the role of PE over a previous PE’s work.

This presentation also seeks to guide engineering-related technical personnel (such as those that support "exempt” industry) from “ground-floor” (no process) to a successful PE Sign/Stamp process.

The presentation will highlight key topics from the resource "What a PE Says with their Signature and Stamp: A Resource for Professional Engineers”, recently published by NSPE to the general public. 

Learning Outcomes:

Understand wholly the general nature of the process, from what to expect when signing, what the PE Signature and Stamp demonstrates when complete, and what to consider when assuming the role of PE over a previous PE’s work.

Better convey the importance of a PE Signature and Stamp to other audiences.  

1 PDH (NY Approval Pending)

Pricing:

NSPE Members: FREE

Non-members: $75.00 (Join NSPE today and save on this purchase.)

To register, add this webinar to your shopping cart and check-out in the NSPE e-store

Speaker(s)

Craig S. Sisco, PE, F.NSPE, Director of Gas Operations of the Southern Nevada Division

Wed, Oct 25 at 2:00 pm EDT
Professional Engineering Ethics, Risk, and Liability with Technology

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Experience Level: Any level of experience

Software has eaten the world. The rapid change in technological advancement is outpacing how to manage and/or protect public health, safety, and welfare from new emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and robotics underpinned by open-source software as the foundation. Many engineered systems today are enhanced and modified digitally while being integrated into physical systems in our world. Digital modernization includes terms such as Software Factory, Software Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Software Bill of Material, and Open-Source Software. Digital systems and tools are impacting our end products, design, and implementation processes. Many questions remain unanswered regarding ethics, liability, and responsibility. Software warrants how engineers should be accountable to protect the public’s security and welfare. Software is being embedded into our defense, infrastructure, and control systems. The public looks to this profession to prevent digital accidents and fatalities, which have already occurred with improper fundamentals outside of the Professional Engineers' purview and oversight. Critical aspects of these systems require prevention, isolation, and remediation of errors, mistakes, attacks, and breaches. We must not ignore that the world will continue to automate, integrate, and innovate using software. This presentation is critical for standards      and certification. It provides guidelines to measure the safety readiness of software technologies under consideration for deployment. It is intended for public policy decision-makers, regulators, engineers, developers, legal, operations, security leaders, and others. We strongly encourage the understanding, process, and platforms that are changing and your role in the transformation to a digital world.  

Learning Outcomes:

Learning outcomes will discuss:
1. the risk and events that are threatening the safe, secure integration and deployment of systems in today’s digital world,
2. demonstrate the skills people should consider as the minimum standard of care,
3. the technology to support ongoing efforts, and 
4. the need for certification as our professional obligation. 

 

1 PDH (NY Approval Pending)

Pricing:

NSPE Members: FREE

Non-members: $75.00 (Join NSPE today and save on this purchase.)

To register, add this webinar to your shopping cart and check-out in the NSPE e-store

Speaker(s)

Bart Kemper, PE, DFE, F.ASME, F.NSPE, Principal Engineer

Dr. Jeff Daniels, Program Director

Cate Richards, Director, Federal Programs

Wed, Nov 8 at 2:00 pm EST
Exploring Digital Twins in Water Industry

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Experience Level: Any level of experience

Digital Twins in the Water industry is a growing arena and this presentation explains the basics of creating digital twins and their usage and application in the water industry.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Basics elements needed to build a system’s digital twin
2. Understanding basic steps involved in building a digital twin
3. Troubleshooting errors in building a digital twin
4. How to use the results of a digital twin

1 PDH (NY Approval Pending)

Pricing:

NSPE Members: FREE

Non-members: $75.00 (Join NSPE today and save on this purchase.)

To register, add this webinar to your shopping cart and check-out in the NSPE e-store

Speaker(s)

Vineela Griddaluru, Water Resources Engineer

Wed, Nov 29 at 2:00 pm EST
The Ethics of the Cutting Edge

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Experience Level: Any level of experience

Participants will explore the ethics of both introducing and incorporating cutting edge technologies into their work. One focus will be the examination and evaluation of consequences, both immediate and long-term. Guidance will be provided about using total life-cycle cost approaches.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Attendees will understand when to introduce cutting edge techniques to their clients as options.

2. Attendees will understand when to incorporate cutting edge techniques in design and maintenance.

3. Attendees will expand their understanding of ways to identify and evaluate consequences.

4. Attendees will expand their understanding of total life-cycle cost analysis.

1 PDH (NY Approval Pending)

Pricing:

NSPE Members: FREE

Non-members: $75.00 (Join NSPE today and save on this purchase.)

To register, add this webinar to your shopping cart and check-out in the NSPE e-store

Speaker(s)

Rebecca A. Bowman, Esq., P.E., D.F.E., Senior Director for Ethics and Professional Practice

David Kish, Ph.D., P.E., M. NSPE,

Recorded Wed, Sep 13 at 2:00 pm EDT
How New PFAS Regulations will impact Water and Wastewater Utilities

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Experience Level: Any level of experience

As you are likely already aware, there is much movement now from EPA about PFAS in water, wastewater, landfills, biosolids and industry.  EPA has recently updated its Lifetime Health Advisory limit for PFAS, has begun initiation of Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 5 (UCMR5) with a focus on measuring PFAS in drinking water, and is laying the foundation for future regulation of PFAS in wastewater treatment through the NPDES program.  The new proposed PFAS drinking water MCLs are expected to finalize late 2023. Most water utilities will be complying with state and federal water quality regulations, but “the public is not going to be satisfied with these answers because a health advisory isn’t a binding regulation.” It is only a matter of time before we will have to comply with new PFAS regulatory requirements regarding this potential contaminant.  

Learning Outcomes:

1. What to expect from the EPA roadmap and timelines for upcoming legislation for wastewater and biosolids management
2. Solutions to the challenges of selecting a PFAS treatment system, permitting process, constructability, and operation including current PFAS waste disposal alternatives
3. Options for PFAS destruction technologies and associated costs

1 PDH (NY Approved)

Pricing:

NSPE Members: FREE

Non-members: $75.00 (Join NSPE today and save on this purchase.)

To register, add this webinar to your shopping cart and check-out in the NSPE e-store

Speaker(s)

Viraj deSilva, PhD, PE, BCEE, Treatment Process Leader

2023 Fifteen Free Webinars (NSPE Members Only)

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Each year, NSPE produces free webinars for NSPE members to conveniently view from the comfort of home or the office. The 2022 WORKability Webinars, along with three webinars selected from the NSPECon22 are available for members to earn 15 free credits. Viewers may earn credits by viewing the webinars and passing a quiz with a score of 70% or higher. Upon passing, members will receive an attendance certificate with the appropriate credits (PDHs) earned for that session. 

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FE, PE, and SE Exam Review and Preparation

Attaining licensure is an important step in every professional engineer's career. That's why NSPE assists licensure candidates in every way possible by evaluating a wide range of exam review and preparation courses in all media and putting them at your disposal, conveniently and economically. Get started with NSPE-endorsed products provided by PPI, A Kaplan Company

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Save the Date for NSPECon24!

2024 Annual Professional Engineers Conference

NSPECon 2024

August 7–9, 2024

Raleigh, North Carolina

www.nspecon.org

Join the Discussion

NSPE hosts several online communities where members can connect, exchange knowledge, and ask questions of their peers. These discussion groups provide tools needed to communicate with leaders and partners in your field through the Open Forum, Women in Engineering, and Engineering and Climate Change communities.