January, 2023 Presentation

Speaker: Chuck Howard, PE

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023

Topic:  How Having a PE Guided a Career

Presentation: Video

Summary: This presentation will describe the career path of the presenter over a career starting in 1973 to the present. Three specific projects will be used to help explain the tremendous benefit of being a licenses professional engineer. The attendees will hear about the ups and downs encountered over a 50 year span covering multiple political, financial, and business climates and how a PE was a major component making these fluctuations easier to handle. An emphasis will be put on the ethical importance of maintaining an engineering professional license by always trying to follow the first Fundamental Canon of engineers to “hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public”. The presenter will welcome an open discussion at the end of the presentation to clarify anything within the seminar.

Chuck Howard has a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University and has Professional Engineering licenses in North Carolina plus 17 additional states. Chuck has almost 50 years of design/build metal building and metal roofing experience. He is a member of PENC’s Building Infrastructure committee which is tasked with attempting to provide viable solutions to a continually increasing building infrastructure funding v. needs imbalance. His company, Metal Roof Consultants, Inc., actively designs and administers contracts for public and state metal roof projects in NC, VA, TN and SC.