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Nominations Now Accepted for MSPE
Recognition Awards
MSPE
Sponsoring and Supporting Engineering Legislation
Opposition of Non-PEs Designing
Certain Individual Sewage Treatment Systems
MSPE and NSPE Will Again Provide Lunch
at April PE Exam
MATHCOUNTS Celebrates 25 Years (aka 52)
and Enjoys Successful State Meet
Projects and Individuals Honored at
2008 Engineers Week Awards and Recognition Banquet
Nominations Now Accepted for MSPE Recognition Awards
Do you know someone who
deserves some recognition? Nominations are now being
accepted for MSPE’s annual recognition awards: the
Engineer of the Year Award, Young Engineer of the Year
Award, Public Service Award and the Extra Mile Award.
Recipients will be recognized at MSPE’s annual meeting
on June 17 at the Science Museum.
Please submit your
nominations of current MSPE members by Thursday, May 15.
Recognition is ALWAYS
appreciated – please consider nominating someone!
Engineer of the Year Award:
Recognizes outstanding achievements to the advancement
and improvement of the engineering profession, public
welfare and service to mankind.
2008 Engineer of the Year Nomination
Young Engineer of the Year
Award: Recognizes outstanding achievements by a
young engineer. Eligible nominees must be a member of
MSPE, be a licensed PE or EIT and be under 35 years of
age as of January 1, 2008.
2008 Young Engineer of the Year Award Nomination
Public Service Award:
Given in recognition of outstanding contributions and
service to the public.
2008 Public Service Award Nomination
Extra Mile Award:
Created to recognize MSPE members who have gone the
"extra mile" in MSPE activities in the past year. More
than one Extra Mile Award may be presented.
Self-nominations are encouraged!
2008 Extra Mile Award Nomination Form
Changes in PE License
Renewal Process
For the first time, all
Minnesota licensed PEs will renew their licenses online
with the MN Board of Licensure. The upcoming license
renewal, due June 30, 2008, will only be available
online (forms can also be downloaded and printed by
licensees). Postcards will be mailed to all licensees in
late April or early May informing licensees how to
renew. Please watch for your postcard and check inside
your other mail (magazines, etc.) for it – no paper
renewal forms will be sent!
If you have changed
addresses within the last two years, it is suggested you
contact the Board of Licensure to make sure they have a
current mailing address on file for you. To update your
address with the board, contact Holly Salmela at
holly.a.salmela@state.mn.us.
Note that licensees can
carry over 12 hours per profession licensed. Tracking
your continuing education is a personal responsibility –
neither MSPE nor the Board of Licensure know how many
hours you have or how many you carried over from the
last renewal period.
MSPE,
NSPE Provide Lunch at April PE Exam
MSPE, in partnership with
NSPE, again provided lunch to over 225 examinees at the
April 11 PE exam at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Thanks to MSPE members Anthony Aderhold, Dan Faulkner
and Kent Schneider for helping to greet examinees as
they made their lunch selections! This outreach has been
provided for the past few years – MSPE and NSPE plan to
continue providing lunch in the future.
MSPE Sponsoring and Supporting
Engineering Legislation
PE Requirement in MnDOT
Leadership Position
MSPE is sponsoring
legislation in the 2008 session that would require Mn/DOT
have a deputy commissioner/chief engineer and would
further require that this position be filled by a
licensed Professional Engineer.
As of April 15, this
legislation has been included in both the House and
Senate transportation policy bills (See
HF3800
beginning with line 39.33 and
SF3223
beginning with line
48.28 for specific language). This language is different
from that which was originally introduced. MSPE is still
working to see that the most appropriate language is
what is eventually passed and that the final version
best protects the health, safety and welfare of
Minnesotans.
This effort is supported by
other engineering organizations, including the American
Council of Engineering Companies/Minnesota, the American
Public Works Association – Minnesota Chapter, the
American Society of Civil Engineers/Minnesota Section,
the Association of General Contractors – Minnesota, the
City Engineers Association of Minnesota, the Minnesota
County Engineers Association, the Minnesota Government
Engineers Council and the National Society of
Professional Engineers.
Opposition of Non-PEs Designing Certain Individual
Sewage Treatment Systems
MSPE has actively opposed
legislation that would allow non-engineers to design
subsurface discharge wastewater treatment systems with
flow rates less than 10,000 gallons per day, or about
35-40 homes per system.
As of April 15, legislation
had passed both the House and Senate Environment &
Natural Resources Committees and was being held for
potential inclusion in the environmental omnibus bills
(See the House and Senate language at
HF3643
and
SF3386).
MSPE is particularly
opposed to this legislation because the 2007 legislature
requested that the MPCA organize a work group of all
interested organizations to discuss and try to reach
consensus on this issue, with a final report requested
to the 2008 legislature in February. The work group,
including MSPE, did meet through early February 2008 and
issued a report to the legislature, which recommended
that professionals licensed by the Board of
Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveyors, Landscape
Architects, Geoscientists and Interior Designers
including engineers, soil scientists and/or geologists
be involved in the design of these systems. SF3386 and
HF3643 ignore this recommendation and instead support a
lower standard for the design of these systems, which is
not in the best interests of protecting the environment.
MATHCOUNTS Celebrates 25 Years (aka 52) and
Enjoys Successful State Meet
The Minnesota state
MATHCOUNTS 2008 competition was held March 14-15 at the
Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Plymouth and was
a huge success! Thank you again to all the chapter
coordinators and volunteers who helped out with chapter
meets and the state meet. You make a difference! This
year’s competitions were a great success and would not
have been possible without all of the dedicated help
from MSPE members all over the state.
Top individual winners
of the 2008 state MATHCOUNTS competition (in order of
finish) are:
1. Martin Camacho,
grade 8, Virtus Academy, St. Paul
2. Nathan Salo, grade 8, Falcon Ridge Middle
School, Apple Valley
3. Ben Dion, grade 8, Parkview Center School,
Roseville
4. Sahiba Singh, grade 7, Wayzata Central Middle
School, Plymouth
These four won top honors
from among 120 participants representing 41 schools at
the 25th annual competition. The four will
form the Minnesota state team and travel to Denver May
8-11 to compete in the national MATHCOUNTS competition
against teams from throughout the United States. The
MATHCOUNTS program pays for the students and coach to
travel to the national event.
Placing fifth and sixth was:
5. Nate Bonshire,
grade 8, Black Hawk Middle School, Eagan
6. Max Timmons, grade 8, Highland Park Junior
High, St. Paul
The top scoring team at the
meet was Falcon Ridge Middle School in Apple
Valley, which included team members Nathan Salo,
Mariel Supina, John Granlund and Maren Loe. The team was
coached by Mary Hoffman. As the coach of the top-scoring
team, Ms. Hoffman will coach the Minnesota state team
traveling to Denver to compete in the national
MATHCOUNTS competition.
Other top teams at the state
meet were:
2. Central Middle School, Eden
Prairie
3. Wayzata Central Middle School, Plymouth
4. St. Michael - Albertville Middle School, St. Michael
5. Kellogg Middle School, Rochester
6. Black Hawk Middle School, Eagan
7. Wayzata West Middle School, Wayzata
8. Marcy Open School, Minneapolis
9. Sartell Middle School, Sartell
10. Parkview Center School, Roseville
Winners of the Countdown Round
were:
1. Martin Camacho, Virtus
Academy, St. Paul
2. Nathan Salo, Falcon Ridge Middle School
3. Nate Bonshire, Black Hawk Middle School
4. Joshua Fourre, Eden Prairie Central Middle School
For more information on the
state meet and pictures of participating teams, visit
the Minnesota MATHCOUNTS Web site at
www.mnspe.org/mathcounts.
Projects and Individuals Honored at 2008 Engineers Week
Awards and Recognition Banquet
Over 250 engineers, award
winners, clients, scholarship recipients and their
guests attended the 44th Annual Engineers
Week Awards and Recognition Banquet on Friday, February
22 at the University Club in downtown St. Paul. Master
of Ceremonies Col. John Kunkle, deputy commander of the
St. Paul District Corps of Engineers guided attendees
through an evening of recognition. Twenty-two
scholarship recipients were acknowledged, as were
Minnesota
Federation of Engineering, Science and Technology
Society winners
of the Young Engineer of the Year Award, the Charles W.
Britzius Distinguished Engineer Award and the Richard
Alberg Distinguished Science and Technology Professional
Award. The evening concluded with the presentation of
the Seven Wonders of Engineering awards, which
recognized 22 project entries including 2008 Project of
the Year Award winner URS Corporation for the Midtown
Greenway Bridge over Hiawatha Avenue. For a complete
list of entries and information on the winning projects
and individuals,
click here.
Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers
20 E. Thompson Ave. #206
West. St. Paul, MN 55118
Phone (651) 457-2347
Fax (651) 457-6631
Contact us at mail@mnspe.org
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