Call for Presentations
Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers
Annual Conference
September 23-25, 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Education session proposals due April 5, 2010

Attendees at the PSPE Conference are licensed engineers who practice in all fields. What tools, issues, best practices, research, or technical discussions do you believe are changing the professional landscape? What emerging trends do you see? Share your experience and lessons learned PSPE conference.

Submit sessions to make the 2010 PSPE Annual Conference a valuable source of education.

E-mail your session proposal to contactpspe@pspe.org - Subject: 2010 Conference

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Continuing Education Requirements for Engineers Licensed in Pennsylvania
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Continuing Education Bill Advances
Legislation that would settle many of the questions that still surround how continuing education (CE) requirements would work in Pennsylvania was unanimously passed by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure committee on January 26th. House Bill 975, which is supported by PSPE, would provide engineers with more flexibility in meeting the mandatory continuing education provisions required under the licensing law. Proposed regulations limit licensees to taking courses in order to meet the CE requirements. HB 975 is based on the national model rules for CE published by NCEES which also provides for credits to be earned by published works, patents, and teaching courses.

This and most other bills that were not related to the Commonwealth budget were put on hold during much of last year while the General Assembly struggled to enact a spending plan. House Bill 975 was one of the first to move out of the Senate licensure committee this year. The bill is now on the Senate Calendar, but will most like be sent to the Senate Appropriation committee for a fiscal note within the next week or so. Our lobbyists anticipate that the bill will be finally enacted with the next couple of months barring unforeseen problems. Click here for more information

Practice of Engineering... Without Licensure and Registration Prohibited.
(a) In order to safeguard life, health or property and to promote the general welfare, it is unlawful for any person to practice or to offer to practice engineering in this Commonwealth, [Pennsylvania] unless he is licensed and registered under the laws of this Commonwealth as a professional engineer...

(b) A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice engineering, ...who practices any branch of the profession of engineering...; or who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, or in any other way represents himself to be an engineer, ...or through the use of some other title implies that he is an engineer, ...or that he is registered under this act; or who holds himself out as able to perform, or who does perform any engineering, ...or work or any other service designated by the practitioner or recognized as engineering...
Engineer, Land Surveyor and Geologist Registration Law. Act 367.