TSPE/ACEC of Tennessee
Annual Meeting
Save
June 18-19 for the Annual Meeting, which will be at
the Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro this year.
You can attend
seminars and get up to
11
professional development hours during the two-day conference.
Topics include TDOT and TDEC updates, Forensic Engineering,
Ethics, and the Crow Friedman professional liability seminar.
More details about seminars will be available soon.
Annual Meeting schedule and registration are available now.
Sign up now.
The deadline for room
reservations at the Embassy Suites is May 30. Contact info is
on the front of the
meeting brochure.
Dorothy and Arthur
Crouch Memorial Scholarship
The TSPE Auxiliary is pleased to announce that
APPLICATIONS are being accepted for the Dorothy
and Arthur Crouch Memorial Scholarship. The TSPE Nashville
Chapter and Auxiliary have, for a number of years, offered
scholarships for engineering students and have recently
established an endowed scholarship through the Tennessee
Engineering Foundation. The selection of the recipient of this
scholarship will be made in June for the following academic year
by the TSPE Auxiliary and the Tennessee Engineering Foundation
Scholarship Selection Committee.
The scholarship is open to all applicants regardless of race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age, with
the following restrictions: the scholarship is open to any
Junior or Senior in an ABET accredited engineering school in
Tennessee. The scholarship may be used for tuition, books, room
and board or any other charges related to registration for the
fall or spring semester in the year it is awarded. The
recipient shall certify that this scholarship plus the sum of
all other scholarships, grants, or gifts does not exceed the
cost of the items listed above. This scholarship will be
reduced appropriately if the sum of all other scholarships,
grants, or gifts exceeds the cost of the items listed above.
This year the award
is in the amount of $4,000. Application deadline for the 2009-10
scholarship is June 5, 2009.
2009 Engineers'
Day on the Hill
We had a
great turnout for E-Day on the Hill on
March 3. Thanks to those who represented the engineering
profession and expressed our concern and support about
specific issues of concern to TSPE and ACEC.
Click on the link below for information about the issues. 2009
Legislative Activities
There will be many new faces in the General Assembly this year.
Plan to join us for Engineers Day on the Hill on March 3, 2009. If you are unsure
about who your legislator is, go to:
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/
Click on House, then Members, to find your State
Representative
Click on Senate, then Members, to find your State
Senator
For the political junkies among us, you may
watch streaming video of the legislature when it is in session:
http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/livevideo/ then click on
House or Senate.
National
Engineers Week, founded in 1951 by the National Society of
Professional Engineers, launches the "One Million Hours
Initiative" to quantify its global outreach efforts supporting
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
Click here to learn more about the
Million Hours of Stem
Outreach.
More
information will be available about who will be collecting the
data in Tennessee.
Have you seen NSPE's brochure?
The Best
Engineers Have One Thing In Common . . . And it's Worth Looking For
If you are encouraging someone to
follow the PE path, this brochure might be helpful. It might
also be helpful to explain to the general public the difference
between an engineering graduate and a Professional Engineer. To see
it, click on the link:
The Best Engineers
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