The New York State Society of Professional Engineers PDH Event App has officially launched — just in time for NYSSPE’s Annual Conference June 7-8, 2017 in White Plains, NY. This is NYSSPE’s official event app for major NYSSPE PDH events.
This app will allow you to have everything at your fingertips: [Read more…]
We’d like to give a special Thank You to the following Life Members for their generous support this past fiscal year.
Howard Blitman PE
Stanley Brodsky PE
John Brown PE
Daniel Burdett PE
Joseph Caldera PE
Alphonse Calvancio PE
John E. Davidson PE
John Davidson PE
Daniel Davis PE
Rafael DeEcheandia PE
Stephen Deutsh PE
John Dick PE
John Dicky PE
Anthony Eberhardt PE
Paul Eland PE
E. Burrell Fisher PE
Ronald Freeman PE [Read more…]
A New York State Society of Professional Engineers (NYSSPE) representative attended the New York State Board for Engineering, Land Surveying, and Geology board meeting on March 10, 2017. The following is a summary of the meeting. (videoconference New York – Albany – Rochester)
A quorum was present.
Committee on Access to the Professions:
The Board engaged in a general discussion regarding experience qualifications needed for licensure as a professional engineer. There was uniform agreement that applications for licensure must include detailed written descriptions of an applicant’s professional related experience.
Engineers’ Week – Capital District had 900 plus attendees. The event provided very good exposure generally for the profession and had significant participation by both women and minorities. [Read more…]
On March 18, 2018, the New York State Society of Professional Engineers (NYSSPE) coordinated the New York State MATHCOUNTS Competition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. The group of NYSSPE volunteers was once again led by Laura Pellizzi, PE, NYSSPE’s President.
The MATHCOUNTS Competition is a national middle school coaching and competitive mathematics program that promotes mathematics achievement through a series of fun and engaging “bee” style contests. The program exists in all 50 states plus U.S. territories, the Department of Defense and State Department schools and is supported by the National Society of Professional Engineers at the state and local levels. Public, private, religious and home schools alike are eligible to participate as long as students are in the sixth, seventh and/or eighth grade.
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Attendees watch Drone Flight during E-week in Buffalo, NY
The NYSSPE Erie Niagara Chapter held yet another successful Engineers Week event on February 24th that brought in over 200 attendees and a banquet dinner with over 75 attendees. The event offered five PDH tracks including Civil, Electrical, Environmental/Regulatory, Mechanical, and Structural. The attendees included local engineers as well as students from both Erie Community College as well as the University at Buffalo (UB). This event continues to grow year over year. [Read more…]
The New York State Society of Professional Engineers (NYSSPE) recently participated in the 37th Annual Capital District E-week celebration, Feb. 16 & 17 at the Albany Marriott. NYSSPE is one of more than 10 Professional Associations that work together to make this event happen. The event this year was again a huge success. Over 900 engineering professionals from across the state and surrounding states attended the event! Along with 70 students.
There were 65 continuing education courses offered for engineers during the event as well as a model bridge competition for high school students, 42 exhibitors and the Capital District’s Future City winners and Robotics team. P. Thomas Carroll, PhD; American Cultural Historian was the keynote speaker at Thursday’s lunch, where he spoke to attendees and students about history in the capital district. [Read more…]
I wanted to provide a brief update on some of the exciting membership benefits that we currently have and are working towards creating to ensure that your membership remains much more valuable than the financial cost. [Read more…]
NSPE membership now includes 15 free online seminars that you can conveniently view from the comfort of your home or office. At the end of each seminar, a quiz will be available for those who need it to meet their state’s continuing education requirements. Please note that 11 of the 15 free PDH courses are certified for engineers licensed in New York State.
For a full list of the 15 PDH courses including the ones that are New York approved, please click here. [Read more…]
On behalf of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers we wish you a warm and healthy holiday season to you and your family. We appreciate all the support our members and sustaining members continue to give us. We have had a great year at NYSSPE and we continue to focus on ensuring that the practice of engineering in the State of New York is done lawfully and ethically and we will continue to do that this coming year. [Read more…]
McLaren Engineering Group has completed a technical feasibility study for a Gondola in the Capital District. McLaren Engineering Group and its partners have completed a technical feasibility study for an aerial gondola that would connect the Albany-Rensselaer Train Station to downtown Albany, providing a new, reliable and efficient transportation option for commuters, visitors and tourists. The project team found that a Capital District Gondola is technically feasible and constructible with minimal impacts, and has strong support from local stakeholders.
The study, which was launched in July 2016 focused on a one-mile long operating corridor that would begin at the Amtrak Station and across the Hudson River to a station on South Pearl Street near the city’s arena; Times Union Center. The gondola would then continue to the Empire State Plaza. 
“The findings to date have exceeded our expectations. A new gondola system can be built that will connect the 825,000 people arriving and departing each year at the Albany-Rensselaer Train Station to three important destinations: downtown Albany, the Albany Capital Center and the Empire State Plaza,” said Peter Melewski, P.E., National Director of Strategic Planning, McLaren Engineering Group. “Building off these initial findings, our project team will continue to work closely with stakeholders to secure funding, continue ridership and rider cost analysis, advance the design, and obtain necessary reviews and approvals.” [Read more…]
