The President’s Award recipients have made outstanding contributions to NCEES and the advancement of licensure and the professions. These recipients are selected by the current president.
Carl Josephson, P.E., S.E., of California, has been awarded the NCEES President’s Award for his dedicated service to NCEES and the engineering profession. Josephson was recognized on August 21, 2025, during the organization’s 104th annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Josephson is an emeritus member of the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists and is licensed in 30 states. He has served as a member of the NCEES Mobility Task Force and as a volunteer for the Structural Buildings Committee. He has continued his efforts to support the organization by most recently serving on the Significant Structures Working Group. He is past president of the Structural Engineers Association of California and is a Structural Engineering Institute Fellow and Structural Engineers Association of California Fellow. Additionally, Josephson was a National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Robert C. Cornforth Award winner.
Gary Thompson, P.L.S., of North Carolina, has been awarded the NCEES President’s Award for his dedicated service to NCEES and the surveying profession. Thompson was recognized on August 21, 2025, during the organization’s 104th annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Thompson served on the NCEES board of directors as treasurer from 2013 to 2016 and is an emeritus member of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. He has served as a member of the NCEES Committee on Examinations for Professional Surveyors and the Committee on Nominations. He has also served as chair of the NCEES Committee on Examination Audit, the Committee on Examination Policy and Procedures, the Committee on Examinations for Professional Surveyors, and the Surveying and Mapping Sciences Licensure Task Force. During his tenure on the NCEES board, he was board liaison to the Committee on Examination Audit, the Committee on Finances, the Financial Reserves Task Force, and the Technology Task Force. Additionally, Thompson volunteers as a long-time member of the Fundamentals of Surveying Exam Development Committee, where he is also a subject-matter expert. He tirelessly volunteers his time as a CPC educator in North Carolina, promoting knowledge and ethics within the licensed surveying community. Thompson has continued his dedication to the profession by serving as the NCEES representative to ABET, participating in the Colonial States Boards of Surveyor Registration, chairing the National Geospatial Advisory Committee, and serving on NASA’s National Space-Based Position, Navigation, and Timing Executive Committee. He is chair of the North Carolina Boundary Commission and serves as the North Carolina Emergency Management’s Deputy Risk Management Chief, including providing leadership in the Hurricane Helene response in Western North Carolina.