NCEES letter to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy

NCEES President David Whitman, P.E., Ph.D., and Executive Director Jerry Carter recently wrote to the newly appointed director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy to explain the position of NCEES regarding professional engineering licensure.
In the letter, Whitman and Carter note the potential for licensed engineers to play an important role in protecting the public from accidents such as the one that caused the Deepwater Horizon blowout. It encourages the new Bureau of Ocean Energy to incorporate engineering licensure requirements into its efforts to reform the department.
Read the letter from NCEES to the director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy.