The 2026 MGEC Ethics Webinar has been uploaded to the MGEC website. This presentation is designed to meet the requirements of your Professional Development Hours of your licensure granted by the Minnesota Board of AELSLAGID for Ethics Training. If you weren’t able to attend the MGEC Professional Ethics Webinar on March 4th, you can still watch the video by reaching out to Donna@mgec.org. MGEC is proud to provide this webinar as a service to our members. We thank them for supporting MGEC so we can support you. ... Read More >>
Education
MGEC Professional Ethics Seminar
MGEC will be hosting an Ethics Seminar on March 4, 2026, from Noon to 2:00 pm. An email with registration has been sent to MGEC members. If you did not receive the email, reach out to Donna@mgec.org. The MGEC Ethics Seminar will be hosted by Kodi J. Verhalen, Partner at Taft Law along with Spencer Rojas, Associate at Taft Law. The presentation will provide an overview of the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct and recent enforcement actions by licensing boards. Attendees will then walk ... Read More >>
Renewing Your Professional License
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 >>
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 >>