NCEES honored the contributions of the 2023 service award recipients at its 102nd annual meeting on August 17, 2023. Below are the profiles of each award recipient.
Howard C. (Skip) Harclerode II, P.E., received the Distinguished Service Award in 2010 and the Distinguished Service Award with Special Commendation in 2019 for his many contributions to NCEES.
Harclerode has continued his dedication to NCEES in many ways, including chairing the Committee on Uniform Procedures and Legislative Guidelines, the Special Committee on Bylaws, and the Committee on Finances. Additionally, he served as 2011–13 Northeast Zone vice president. He has also been a member of many committees, including Member Board Administrators, Law Enforcement, Examinations for Professional Engineers, and the Advisory Committee on Council Activities, in addition to participating in the Engineering Education Task Force and the Computer-Based Testing Implementation Task Force. A volunteer with the NCEES Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Chemical Exam Development Committee since 2005, Harclerode served as vice chair from 2015 to 2018 and as chair from 2018 to 2021.
A member of the Maryland State Board for Professional Engineers since 2003, he is currently the chair and has served as vice chair in the past.
He is a fellow of the National Society of Professional Engineers, a congressional fellow and recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers Award, a fellow and life member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
Harclerode is president of KBD Engineering Company, Inc. in Phoenix, Maryland.
Jeffrey B. Jones, P.L.S., first began serving NCEES as a subject-matter expert to the Principles and Practice of Surveying Committee in 1992–93. His past service includes chairing the Committee on Examination Policy and Procedures from 2019 to 2021 and serving as a member of the Committee on Examinations for Professional Surveyors. He currently serves as a member of the NCEES Advisory Committee on Council Activities.
Since 2013, Jones has served as a member of the Wyoming Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors. He currently serves as the vice chair and also chairs several board committees.
Jones also serves as a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors. He represented the state of Wyoming as a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors with the Board of Governors from 2002 to 2005. He then went on to serve on the board of directors from 2006 to 2011. He was elected as an ACSM/NSPS Fellow in 2010.
Dean C. Ringle, P.E., P.S., has been a member of NCEES for more than 25 years and served as NCEES president in 2019–20. He served as a board liaison for the NCEES Committee on Awards and the Public Outreach Task Force in 2020–21. He was previously the board liaison for the Committee on Examinations for Professional Engineers and the Special Committee on Bylaws. He currently serves as a member of the NCEES Advisory Committee on Council Activities and has served on numerous committees and task forces throughout his service to NCEES.
A licensed professional surveyor since 1985 and a licensed professional engineer since 1989, Ringle has been an active member of the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors for close to 20 years.
Ringle is also a member of the National Association of County Engineers, the County Engineers Association of Ohio, the Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio, and the Engineers Club of Ohio. He also taught various surveying courses at The Ohio State University College of Engineering for 25 years.
Since 2009, Marlee Walton, P.E., P.L.S., has contributed to the work of NCEES committees, including most recently the Committee on Education, the Committee on Examinations for Professional Surveyors, and the Fundamentals of Surveying (FS) Exam Development Committee. Previously, she served multiple terms on the Advisory Committee on Council Activities, the Committee on Nominations, and the Special Committee on Bylaws. She is also the NCEES representative to the Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission of ABET.
Walton is an emeritus member of the Iowa Engineering and Land Surveying Examining Board. She also serves in leadership roles in the American Society of Civil Engineers, ABET, and the Surveying and Geomatics Educators Society.
For nearly 20 years, Walton has taught civil engineering and surveying courses at her alma mater, Iowa State University. She also has other industry experience in the public and private sectors, providing management and leadership services in surveying, photogrammetry, site development, and transportation engineering.
Steven F. Barrett, Ph.D., P.E., has been serving NCEES as an exam volunteer for over 20 years. In 2002, he joined the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Electrical and Computer: Computer Engineering Exam Development Committee and has since served in a variety of leadership roles as chair and vice chair of several subcommittees. In 2011, he earned a certificate of appreciation for his 10 years of service to exam development. He also served as the NCEES representative to the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET from 2018 to 2023.
In addition to his NCEES exam development service, Barrett served as a member of the Professional Activities and Knowledge Study (PAKS) committees in both 2005 and 2011. In 2004, he served as a member of the Calculator Selection Committee. Barrett has served as a consultant to the NCEES Committee on Education since 2017.
Since 2016, Barrett has served as a member of the Wyoming Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors. He is currently the chair of the board ethics committee.
Barrett is the vice provost for undergraduate education at the University of Wyoming.
As an NCEES exam development volunteer since 2001, Anne Bertelsmann, Ph.D., P.E., has demonstrated a continued commitment to NCEES and its advancement of engineering licensure. In 2001, Bertelsmann joined the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Chemical Exam Development Committee and began serving in a leadership role in 2008. She has continued to serve in a variety of leadership roles for the past 15 years.
Bertelsmann has served as the editor of the PE Chemical Reference Handbook since 2017. She is a constant advocate for and contributor to improvements that strengthen the handbook. During the 2018 transition of the PE Chemical exam from pencil-and-paper to computer-based testing, Bertelsmann was an influential leader and instrumental in transitioning the PE Chemical exam item bank to the ExamDeveloper software. She is also a vocal advocate for diversity among committee membership.
Bertelsmann works in a process safety role within the refining organization of Marathon Petroleum Company LP. She lives with her family in the Houston area.
LeRoy C. Feusner, P.E., is being posthumously honored with the NCEES Distinguished Examination Service Award. Feusner was a leader and prolific contributor to engineering licensure exam development for almost three decades.
Feusner became a volunteer with the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Environmental Exam Development Committee in 1992. He was an active exam item writer and item reviewer in the area of hazardous waste.
In 1992, he was selected by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, now known as the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, as one of 20 professional environmental engineers nationally to meet with NCEES to define and establish an engineering examination scope of work for the practice of environmental engineering.
He held four positions during a 30-year career with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality as a chemical/environmental engineer. Feusner retired from the state of Wyoming in 2009.
With a reputation for service, Feusner, who passed away in September 2022, is remembered for his distinguished commitment to advancing engineering licensure.
Lan Yoneda, P.E., began serving NCEES in 2004 when he joined the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Civil Water Resources and Environmental Exam Development Committee. In 2007, he also began serving on the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Civil Exam Development Committee. Yoneda is knowledgeable in all areas of civil engineering and has volunteered his expertise to help write and review hundreds of questions written for both the FE exam and PE Civil exam. Volunteers rely on him for his leadership, mentorship, and expertise.
He has also served on standard setting committees and Professional Activities and Knowledge Study (PAKS) committees in the past. Additionally, Yoneda has served in a leadership role on the FE Exam Development Committee. During the transition from pencil-and-paper to computer-based exams, Yoneda embraced the change and assisted others in learning the software used to develop the computer-based exams. He continues to assist new volunteers through the process of learning the software and writing effective questions.
Yoneda retired as assistant chief to the Division of Road Maintenance for the city and county of Honolulu in 2021. He is a United States Air Force veteran.