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Oct 1978
Voluntary Maintenance of Professional Development
Publication: Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 104, Issue 4
Abstract
The mandatory or voluntary concept for continuing professional development for license renewal is discussed. The question: As a requirement for license renewal should legal procedures be established requiring a minimum level of competency of registered engineers and land surveyors? The ASCE Board of Direction, at this time, recognizes that the very controversial concept of mandatory continuing education is unacceptable to most civil engineers. Most engineering registration boards reject the mandatory concept. Reasons are cited. Conferences and surveys sponsored by ASCE and extensive study by the ASCE Committee on Registration of Engineers reflects the Board's concern. However, the Iowa Legislature, in the late spring of 1977, passed the first law in our country requiring the State registration board to implement a program requiring continuing education as a condition of license renewal.
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Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 104 • Issue 4 • October 1978
Pages: 251 - 255
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© 1978 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Oct 1978
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Architectural engineering
- Building management
- Business management
- Education
- Engineering profession
- Geomatic surveys
- Geomatics
- Government
- Land surveys
- Legal affairs
- Legislation
- Licensure and certification
- Maintenance and operation
- Organizations
- Practice and Profession
- Professional development
- Professional practice
- Professional societies
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Henry S. Steinbrugge, F.ASCE
Asst. Dir., Office of Bridges, Federal Highway Administration, Portland, Ore.; also, Pres., Oregon State Board of Engrg. Examiners, Salem, Ore.
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