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NOCO Committee May Meeting
5/16/2019 - 5/16/2019Event Description
Please join us Thursday morning, May 16th, 7:30 to 9:00 am at CTL / Thompson’s office, 400 N Link Lane, Fort Collins, CO. This will be a Webinar General meeting with Denver for a presentation on
We all tend to view ourselves as the “good guy”. You ask yourself, “Why would I need to attend a SEAC meeting in May to hear about ethics when I’m the good guy and I already do stuff right? It’s the other ‘bad’ engineers who should learn about this stuff!”
Choosing between “good” and “bad” appears easy until unseen variables are introduced such as time constraints, family, promotion opportunities, job security, peer pressure, supervisor pressure, and professional reputation. Engineers are not only faced with choices between good and bad, but often a more difficult ethical dilemma occurs when making choices between competing goods or competing bads.
As engineers, moreover as structural engineers, we are tasked to protect the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Although doing what is right seems obvious, how do we know what is right? Our industry ethics are intended to give us a moral guide and direction, but periodically reacquainting ourselves with these standards is necessary to apply those ideals appropriately. In fact, several states require one or more hours of annual or bi-annual training on ethics training topics to maintain licensure.
Neither the entire breadth nor depth of engineering ethics can be confined to a 1-hour breakfast meeting topic; however, the May 2019 SEAC meeting will offer an appropriate refresher on ethical guidance and will also include a self-graded exam to evaluate your knowledge of current laws, rules, and bylaws governing the practice of engineering in Colorado. Example topics include marijuana use, working on a design-build team, good Samaritan laws, child support, title protection, electronic signatures, conflicts of interest, and more. How well will you do?
Peter Marxhausen, M.S., P.E., first obtained registration in Colorado in 2004 and is a licensed Professional Engineer in nine states. In addition to being a senior staff forensic structural engineer with Higgins & Associates, Inc. he is an adjunct faculty member with the University of Colorado Denver where he teaches in the Civil Engineering Department. Mr. Marxhausen’s course curriculum includes the subjects of engineering ethics and laws. Mr. Marxhausen has been a member of SEAC since 2004 and chairs the SEAC Ethics and Legislative committee. He has also served on several other SEAC committees over the past 15 years.
Please RSVP by Monday, May 13th ONLINE using the link below. Once you click on the link you will be directed to the Event registration for the event. Click “Register for this event” and fill in your contact information and click continue, verify your information is correct and click RSVP and continue. Summary page pops up and you can add additional attendees or finalize your RSVP. If you have any questions, please call Becky Roland at 303-551-3266 or email her at administrator@seacolorado.org.
Engineering Ethics and Laws in Colorado
We all tend to view ourselves as the “good guy”. You ask yourself, “Why would I need to attend a SEAC meeting in May to hear about ethics when I’m the good guy and I already do stuff right? It’s the other ‘bad’ engineers who should learn about this stuff!”
Choosing between “good” and “bad” appears easy until unseen variables are introduced such as time constraints, family, promotion opportunities, job security, peer pressure, supervisor pressure, and professional reputation. Engineers are not only faced with choices between good and bad, but often a more difficult ethical dilemma occurs when making choices between competing goods or competing bads.
As engineers, moreover as structural engineers, we are tasked to protect the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Although doing what is right seems obvious, how do we know what is right? Our industry ethics are intended to give us a moral guide and direction, but periodically reacquainting ourselves with these standards is necessary to apply those ideals appropriately. In fact, several states require one or more hours of annual or bi-annual training on ethics training topics to maintain licensure.
Neither the entire breadth nor depth of engineering ethics can be confined to a 1-hour breakfast meeting topic; however, the May 2019 SEAC meeting will offer an appropriate refresher on ethical guidance and will also include a self-graded exam to evaluate your knowledge of current laws, rules, and bylaws governing the practice of engineering in Colorado. Example topics include marijuana use, working on a design-build team, good Samaritan laws, child support, title protection, electronic signatures, conflicts of interest, and more. How well will you do?
About the Presenter
Peter Marxhausen, M.S., P.E., first obtained registration in Colorado in 2004 and is a licensed Professional Engineer in nine states. In addition to being a senior staff forensic structural engineer with Higgins & Associates, Inc. he is an adjunct faculty member with the University of Colorado Denver where he teaches in the Civil Engineering Department. Mr. Marxhausen’s course curriculum includes the subjects of engineering ethics and laws. Mr. Marxhausen has been a member of SEAC since 2004 and chairs the SEAC Ethics and Legislative committee. He has also served on several other SEAC committees over the past 15 years.
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Please RSVP by Monday, May 13th ONLINE using the link below. Once you click on the link you will be directed to the Event registration for the event. Click “Register for this event” and fill in your contact information and click continue, verify your information is correct and click RSVP and continue. Summary page pops up and you can add additional attendees or finalize your RSVP. If you have any questions, please call Becky Roland at 303-551-3266 or email her at administrator@seacolorado.org.