BY DENISE RAMSEY, PE, FBPE Chair (2025)
With renewal behind us, you had an opportunity to set up your CPC Tracking with NCEES. Although this was a new requirement for renewal in 2025, it is a valuable free service offered by NCEES that allows license holders to track continuing education in multiple jurisdictions.
Your Board also heard from many of you while documenting your continuing education that our rules on approved providers for continuing education is confusing. We only require providers of Florida Laws and Rules classes to be approved providers. We will be working on revising wording of our rules to clarify for the next renewals.
Have you thought about what else NCEES does? Many of you have taken the FE or PE exams administered by NCEES. The rigor of developing and administering the multiple national examinations takes much diligence. I am personally serving on the Exam Audit committee this year, so I’ve had personal experience into the processes, and it is eye opening.
NCEES also has a records program, which is highly recommended for those who seek licensure in multiple jurisdictions.
Finally, NCEES is the conduit that connects the Florida Board of Professional Engineers to other boards throughout the United States. Several members of FBPE are preparing to attend the NCEES Southern Zone conference in Little Rock, Ark., in April. This allows representatives from all Southern Zone states to meet and discuss relevant issues to engineering and the issues that boards are facing. In August, all boards will assemble in New Orleans to similarly share on a wider scale.
Finally, and unrelated to NCEES, we are closely monitoring the Florida legislative session for impacts to our licensees and will report back in the next newsletter.
Denise Ramsey, PE, of Jacksonville, is the vice president of AE Business Processes and chief engineer with Haskell Architects & Engineers. She was appointed to the Board in 2021 and served as its vice chair in 2024.