National Society of Professional Engineers

“The organization has the following classes of membership: licensed member - a licensed member is a person holding a valid license or certificate of registration as a professional engineer, issued under the laws of any state, territory, possession, or district of the united states, or the equivalent as defined under the laws of any other country, or a retired engineer who obtained and retained a valid license or certificate while in active practice in the profession until retirement. Member - a member is a person holding a valid engineer-in-training or engineering intern certification, issued under the laws of any state, territory, possession or district of the united states, or the equivalent under the laws of any other country. A member shall automatically advance to the licensed member grade as soon as eligible by licensure. Graduate member - a person who has graduated with a bachelor's degree or higher from an engineering curriculum accredited by the accreditation board for engineering and technology ("abet"), or from an engineering or pre-engineering program that leads to engineering licensure, shall be granted provisional status as a member for up to two years to achieve all the requirements of the member grade. Graduate members do not have voting privileges and cannot hold office in nspe. Graduate members become members immediately upon successfully meeting the requirements for member status. Student member - a student member is a person who is enrolled full-time in an abet-accredited engineering program or an engineering or pre-engineering program that has a transfer agreement with one or more abet accredited engineering programs. A student enrolled full-time in a graduate level engineering program may choose any grade for which eligible, including a student member. At-large member - a person may join nspe as an at-large member if they meet all the requirements for licensed member or member status as defined above and the person either (a) resides outside the united states, its territories, possessions, or districts, or (b) resides in a state where state society offers state-only membership and the at-large member chooses not to be a member of that state society. If an at-large member moves to a state where the individual is eligible for membership, and state society does not offer state-only membership, then the individual must join state society upon the at-large member's annual renewal date to retain membership in nspe. Grandfathered member - a current member who has maintained membership in nspe, but is no longer eligible for membership due to changes in membership criteria, shall be allowed to maintain their membership in good standing. If the grandfathered member's membership lapses, the grandfathered member will not be permitted to rejoin nspe without first meeting the then-current membership requirements. There are two ceremonial titles of memberships: (a) fellow member - a fellow member is a licensed member who has been approved by a peer review of fellows to receive this honor, as set forth in the nspe operating procedures. State societies shall be permitted to offer a similar membership at the state society level. (b) honorary member - an honorary member is an individual, whose knowledge and accomplishments deserve special recognition for contributions to the licensed practice of professional engineering. An honorary member shall not have voting privileges, may not hold office, and shall be exempt from paying dues. An honorary membership shall be awarded upon the approval of two-thirds of the nspe executive committee. At no time shall there be more than ten living honorary members of the nspe. State societies will be permitted to offer a similar membership at the state society level. All members other than graduate members, honorary members, and student members will have voting privileges in nspe.”

“Voting members elect members to a house of delegates which has the sole authority to elect the nspe officers and board.”

“Voting members elect members to a house of delegates which adopt the vision, mission and goals for nspe as well as establish the strategic plan.”

“A draft of form 990 is reviewed by the organization's board of directors and the senior director of finance & administration prior to being filed with the internal revenue service.”

“The corporation requires annual disclosure of any conflicts of interest. For each interest disclosed to the nspe president, the president will determine whether to: (a) take no action; (b) assure full disclosure to the board of directors and other individuals covered by this policy; (c) ask the person to recuse from participation in related discussions or decisions within the organization; or (d) ask the person to resign from his or her position in the organization or, if the person refuses to resign, become subject to possible removal in accordance with the organization's removal procedures. The organization's chief employed executive and chief employed finance executive will monitor proposed or ongoing transactions for conflicts of interest and disclose them to the nspe president in order to deal with potential or actual conflicts, whether discovered before or after the transaction has occurred.”

“The compensation for the executive director is reviewed annually. Input is received from an independent compensation consultant and approval is made by the executive committee of the board of directors. The compensation of the senior management team is determined through the annual performance review process.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available to the public upon request.”