From Columbia to Kansas City down to Joplin and over to St. Louis, MSPE's Chapters have been busy promoting Engineers Week, hosting joint chapter meetings, providing professional development sessions and sponsoring bridge building competitions. A few of these events are shown in the slideshow above. For more information on chapter events throughout the state, click on the "Chapters" navigation button in the blue box to the left. On the Chapters page, choose your chapter of interest by clicking on the map to be transferred to each chapter's special informational page.

 

MSPE TO VOTE ON TWO-TIER (STATE/CHAPTER)
MEMBERSHIP OPTION

 MSPE members will be asked to amend the society’s bylaws to enact the option of a two-tiered, state and chapter, membership category. This is a governance change requiring a two-thirds vote of the society members in attendance at the Meeting of the Membership scheduled for 5 p.m. on Monday, June 22, 2009 during MSPE's Annual Convention at the Radisson Hotel in Branson, Missouri. Please make plans to attend and cast your vote. 
A two-tiered membership category (or state only/state optional as it has been referred) has been debated by the society for over four years. The proposal is the result of a task force study of how to stem MSPE’s membership decline. The two-tier membership option was proposed as a way of allowing current and prospective members an opportunity to choose what levels of membership they desire. Feared as a separation from NSPE by some, the intent of two-tiered membership is NOT to be a “divorce” from NSPE, but used as another tool in the membership tool box.  There is no expectation that two-tiered membership will be the final answer to MSPE’s recruitment/retention problems, but at a minimum it’s a feasible approach to increasing MSPE’s total membership. For complete details on the two-tier (state and chapter) membership plan, click on the links below:

"Charting Our Own Course" - Two-Tier Membership Plan  
          
Proposed Bylaws Amendments to Enact Two-Tier Membership 

MSPE's 72nd Annual Convention is going to "Extreme Measures" at the Radisson Hotel in Branson, Missouri on June 21-24, 2009.

Click here for MSPE's 2009 Annual Convention Registration Brochure

On Friday April 17, 2009 MSPE hosted the PE Certificate Presentation Ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda.  12 newly registered PE’s participated in the ceremony.  A cookie and punch reception was held on the 3rd floor rotunda in their honor.  For pictures of this event, click here.  

MSPE President elect Ben Ross, P.E., Lincoln Duncan, P.E. from the St. Louis Chapter, and Paul Munger, PhD, P.E. posed for a picture after the ceremony. 

Missouri Supreme Court Overturns Registration Board Ruling – case involves a professional engineer sealing architectural drawings and immediate personal supervision.  This may require a law change to correct language in current law that was overturned.  Read the court ruling here. (PDF File)

Engineer of Record & Specialty Engineer rule change (PDF File)

New Standard of Care and Title Block rules (PDF File)