The NSPE Legislative and Governmental Affairs Committee met at the Annual Meeting in Las Vegas to discuss the committee's goals for the coming year and determine NSPE's primary public policy agenda for 2011–12. Based on committee discussions and a recent survey of NSPE members, NSPE will focus on the following federal issues:

• Qualifications-based selection
• STEM education
• Good Samaritan protection for professional engineers
• Energy
• Licensure of federal engineers
• Critical infrastructure and homeland security
• Infrastructure