MSPE recognizes the contributions of Thomas J. Vaughan, Jr., PE, who recently completed his service on the MSPE Board, including roles as President (2017-19), Treasurer, and Director.

Tom joined MSPE in 2001 upon passing his FE Exam. He served on the planning committees when MSPE hosted the 2011 and 2017 Northeast Regional Meetings. After the Merrimack Valley gas explosions, Tom was instrumental in organizing meetings with National Grid on behalf of MSPE to discuss requirements for PEs in gas pipeline work.

Tom continues his engineering consulting practice as Principal of GSC Engineering, Inc. Thank you, Tom, for your dedication to promoting the value of PE Licensure. We wish you the best in your future endeavors.

MSPE fondly remembers our friend and colleague, Tom Hulbert, PE, who passed away in October 2020.  

Tom was a Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University in Boston, and a retired Associate Dean of Engineering and Director of the School of Engineering Technology. He served on the MSPE Board for several years, and on NSPE’s Professional Engineers in Higher Education Interest Group, after serving as MSPE Secretary. Tom was on the Program Committee when Massachusetts hosted the NSPE National Convention in 2006, and for several years he coordinated and taught MSPE’s FE Exam Course Preparation program. 

In 2018, MSPE celebrated Tom’s well-deserved national recognition as an NSPE Fellow, an honor and accomplishment he was proud to have earned. Tom’s warm and encouraging personality enriched the lives of his many students, colleagues, and fellow MSPE members. We are grateful for his contributions to the engineering profession and our Society. View the obituary of Thomas E. Hulbert, PE 1935-2020.

Monika Schulz, CAE will become NSPE’s new Executive Director and CEO on February 15, 2021. Monika is an association executive with 30 years of non-profit industry experience. Her vast experience includes transforming and growing associations, reengineering certification programs, increasing member value, and building relationships with chapters. View the NSPE press release.

Many NSPE members are playing a role in a new organization that serves as a “social change lab” for engineering, called Engineering Change Lab USA.

Engineering Change Lab USA (ECL) was founded in 2017 as a venue for forward-thinking leaders to address licensure, ethics, entrepreneurship, and public policy in a setting that might not occur during a typical professional society or engineering organization forum. On December 16, 2020 NSPE and NCEES partnered with ECL on the virtual summit Licensure Models for the 4th Industrial Revolution. The next summit on March 22, 2021, is titled, The Imperative of Climate Change & the Future of Engineering. Read more about ECL & NSPE in this PE magazine article.

NSPE recently created an updated Strategic Plan that represents both continuity and change.

Continuity with the Society’s unchanging goal of protecting the public health, safety, and welfare; and a recognition that we needed change in order to achieve more impact, through strategies backed by resources that will deliver real-world results.

This important 8-page document outlines key pillars of the plan, including: Driving Growth, Shaping Public Policy, Educating for the Future, and Promoting Diversity and Tomorrow’s Engineer.

Save the dates of July 7-11 for PE CON 2021 the 2021 Professional Engineers Conference. This year’s conference, hosted by NSPE and the Pennsylvania Society, is an opportunity for PEs and those on the path to licensure to connect with like-minded professionals, earn continuing education credits, and learn about the profession’s top issues. Registration opens on April 1.

NSPE membership gives engineers the tools and services they need to be better informed and better connected within their professional community. Check out NSPE member benefits and discounts in this one-page summary, and learn more at www.nspe.org/benefits