National Society of Professional Engineers

Yes.

The National Society of Professional Engineers, the NSPE, has a very explicit, legally binding code of ethics.

And the very first fundamental canon, the absolute bedrock of the entire engineering profession, is written with incredible clarity.

What does it say?

Paramount means supreme, above all else.

Above the project schedule, above the employer's profit margins, and above your own career advancement.

And the sources provide a fascinating real-world test case from the NSPE Board of Ethical Review that illustrates exactly how heavy that burden is, right? Case 92-4.

The case of the environmental engineer.

Do that now.

In terms of that, I was just talking to a bunch of engineers in New York at NSPE about your personal brand and how important it is.

And I mean, you just named it, creating a CD that you mailed.

You're in the driver's seat of your career and you get to decide what it looks like.

We don't forget about what interests the students, right? Or what interests the candidate, if you will.

And their interests are vast, right? So from the diversity perspective, you want to make sure you're getting in touch with chapters like NSBE, the National Society of Black Engineers, SHIP, the Society of Professional Engineers from the Hispanic perspective, right? And there are other groups out there also that are represented.

You also want to make sure that the A-C-E-C, the A-S-C-E's, the I-T-E's.

I'm saying a lot of acronyms.

Now, the individual PEs, the about half a million of them, divided by roughly two and a half million working engineers comes out to about 20%.

And that's the same number that the National Society of Professional Engineers, which is the trade body itself, has been publishing for years.

The vast majority of working engineers in our country do not have professional engineering licenses.

And no, they don't need them.