Major Justin Delorit, Ph.D., P.E., admitted that in addition to being humbled as the National Society of Professional Engineers’ 2019 Federal Engineer of the Year, he was also overcome by another feeling.  “I just got off the plane from South Korea, so I’m a little jet lagged,” he told an audience at the 40th Annual FEYA Banquet at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on February 22.

As the need to appreciate federal workers grows, engineers in federal government continue working behind the scenes to ensure public safety across the country and around the world.

The Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC®) today released the 2018 edition of the EJCDC® Construction Family of Documents.  These new documents are intended for use on engineered construction projects in which the owner retains an engineering firm to prepare drawings and specifications, then separately engages a construction contractor to perform the work. The C-Series assumes the design Engineer is involved during construction.

New white paper helps small and mid-sized firms boost profits & growth Today Harbor Compliance and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) released “Licensing for Profitability, Agility, and Growth: Meeting the Challenges of Small and Mid-Sized Engineering Firms,” a white paper that presents strategies for managing engineering firm licenses to meet business goals.

The National Society of Professional Engineers has named nine professional engineers to its 2018 class of Fellow members. The Fellow membership grade honors those active NSPE members who have demonstrated exemplary and devoted service to their profession, the Society, and their community. Requirements for the designation include holding at least one elected office at any level and active involvement at the national level.

To promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle technologies, the National Society of Professional Engineers has just released its “Autonomous Vehicles: A Public Regulatory Policy Guide,” providing public policy decision makers, regulators, manufacturers, and others with guidelines to measure the safety readiness of autonomous vehicles under consideration for deployment.

Col. (Ret.) John Henderson, P.E., has been named the National Society of Professional Engineers’ 2018 Federal Engineer of the Year. He received the honor during the 39th Annual FEYA Banquet at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on February 23, 2018. Henderson, who was recently appointed the assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for installations, environment, and energy, was nominated for the award while serving as district commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District.

Infrastructure is the framework that supports virtually every aspect of our lives: transportation, commerce, public health, safety, and security. The National Society of Professional Engineers has consistently advocated for a comprehensive, long-term solution to address the unacceptable decay of our nation’s critical infrastructure. Decades of neglect and underfunding has brought U.S. infrastructure to a tipping point.

The second version of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s guidance on autonomous vehicles, A Vision for Safety, has reinforced the National Society of Professional Engineers’ disappointment and deepened its concern due to the guidance’s failure to adequately take into account NSPE’s expressed public safety concerns.

The National Society of Professional Engineers is disappointed and concerned that the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee’s Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection draft legislation, the Highly Automated Vehicle Testing and Deployment Act of 2017, will allow automakers to deploy highly automated vehicles without first addressing the major safety, technological, and ethical implications of autonomous vehicles.