In Minnesota renewals for the Professional Engineer and Land Surveyor licenses are due June 30, 2024. Somethings to keep in mind. Your state employer regularly checks public records to make sure your license is current. It seems like every two years someone fails to ensure that their renewal was completed and MGEC is made aware of subsequent discipline the state (as an employer) takes against that employee. Between the additional cost of renewing your professional license late and the cost of lost pay due to suspension, the cost of failing to confirm your license renewal is ... Read More >>
Education
MGEC Ethics Seminar Recap
On Thursday, April 4th, MGEC hosted a webinar on ethics as a free benefit for its full members. Facilitated by Hamline Distinguished Law Professor David Schultz, the theme of the presentation centered on how the process of normalizing unethical behaviors can happen through an authoritarian permission structure. Professor Schlutz recounted the Milgram experiments of the early 1960s, which showed that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary unethical things if the conditions are right (or wrong!). While Milgram demonstrated that ordinary people would be willing to shock test subjects if ... Read More >>
Reminder: MGEC Professional Ethics Seminar – Registration is Open!
MGEC will be offering an online professional ethics class on April 4, from Noon to 2 pm taught by David Schultz, Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at Hamline University. He will be presenting on Why Good Engineers do Bad Things. Course description - Why do good engineers and organizations act unethically? Why do people who apparently know right from wrong nonetheless act unethically? The session will begin with a discussion of the classic Stanley Milgram punishment experiments, seeking to understand how they help explain unethical behavior. The class ... Read More >>
Scholarship Update!
MGEC has opened the opportunity to apply for one of three scholarships. Applications will be accepted starting March 1, 2022 and received by MGEC no later than by 5:00pm on June 30, 2022. For the MGEC family member scholarship, MGEC will now accept applications from students pursuing post undergraduate degrees and students in their junior or senior year of an undergraduate degree in engineering or land surveying. Only applicants that have not received a previous award will qualify for this award. Read More ... Read More >>
PE Review Class changes
MGEC will no longer be providing a PE exam review course. MGEC started offering the PE exam review class in the early 1990s; this long standing tradition was successful for almost 30 years! This change is the result of upcoming retirements for some instructors and other instructors balancing many responsibilities (work, children, etc.). The exams have been transitioning to an online basis and it’s expected that all will be online within the next couple of years. Instead, starting in November 2020, MGEC will provide reimbursement for Full Members enrolled in a review course for their ... Read More >>
Registration now open for the Spring 2020 PE Review Class
Registration is now open for the Spring 2020 PE Review Class. Classes start February 11, 2020 and run through March 24, 2020. For more information or to register, click here. ... Read More >>