MSPE Mentoring and Leadership Programs

If you’re looking for ways to make a positive difference within your community or across the state, please consider how you can share your time, talent, and expertise by volunteering to support MSPE-sponsored programs.

Choose from several opportunities to participate, ranging from planning and implementing programs that celebrate middle and high school students’ math proficiency, to programs that encourage and assist graduate engineers to obtain a Professional License; to educating the public about the benefits of technical services provided by Professional Engineers, to supporting events that promote the ethical practice of engineering to enhance public health, safety, and quality of life.

Click the tabs below to learn more about MSPE outreach programs and learn how you can support them.

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If you’re looking for ways to make a positive difference within your community or across the state, please consider how you can share your time, talent, and professional expertise with others. In the six decades since the Society’s incorporation, MSPE’s range of services has expanded to include:

• Coordination of MATHCOUNTS, a program that encourages and rewards middle school students for proficiency in mathematics
• Regional conferences that promote the ethical practice of engineering;
• Programs to encourage and assist graduate engineers to obtain a Professional License;
• Educating the public about the benefits of technical services provided by Professional Engineers;
• Support for improvements that enhance public health, safety, welfare and quality of life;
• Educational grants for students pursuing engineering studies;
• Support for Homes-for-the-Troops, a Massachusetts charity that provides specially-built homes for severely-disabled veteran at no-cost;
• Educational programs that enhance the skills and experience of practicing professional engineers;
• Sponsorship of an annual forum with the Massachusetts Board of Registration, to promote an interactive discussion and exchange of ideas regarding current issues facing the Board and the practice of engineering in the Commonwealth.
• A number of MSPE members volunteer their time and professional expertise as board members of various public organizations throughout the commonwealth, such as the Department of Housing and Community Development.

For more information or to inquire about volunteering, please contact a member of the Board of Directors.

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“Changing the Conversation” is a national campaign to improve the public understanding of engineering. By changing how we present engineering, we can encourage young people to make a difference in the world through an engineering career. We can also help educate the general public on what engineers do and how they benefit our world.

Changing the Conversation is presented by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Engineers Week Foundation. Read more in this PE Magazine article titled, Conversation Starter: Engineers need to learn a new way of talking about themselves and their work. It’s going to take a profession-wide effort.

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