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The Magazine for Professional Engineers
November 2014

Building for Tomorrow

Engineering colleges and departments are building and renovating facilities, spending millions to provide new classrooms, meeting spaces, and labs. What are the drivers?
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Departments & Columns

You Said It

No Need for ‘Weed-Out’ Courses

PE Report

Philadelphia Demolition Accident Brings Calls for Reform
Bill Encourages Girls to Pursue STEM Careers
Engineering Pays
New Jersey Good Samaritan Law Ups PE Protections
North Carolina Bolsters PE Requirement and Title Protection
New Zealand Strengthens Professional Engineering Standards Following Quake

Concepts

The Dirty Hands, Dirty Knees Way to Promote Engineering

Legal Beat

Specs and Antitrust, Speaking Out, LLCs

On Ethics

So Many Codes of Ethics, Which One to Follow?
You Be the Judge Design-Build Dilemma: ‘Rubber-Stamping’ Request

Leading Insight

Cultivating Visible Experts

PE Community

Construction For PEs in Construction, an Upbeat Outlook
Education Learning Paradoxes
Industry The Use of Probabilistic Risk Assessment in the Design of High-Hazard Facilities
Private Practice Scratching the ‘Entrepreneurial Itch’

NSPE Now

Welcome to the Engineering Profession
Connect With NSPE
NSPE Backs More Funding for National Science Foundation
MATHCOUNTS Starts Program For Fundraising
Outlook Continual Improvement a Must
Policy Perspectives In Era of Congressional Paralysis, Regulations Dominate Agenda

PEople

NSPE people on the move

Variables

Record-Setting Suspension Bridge Celebrates 50 Years