About Us
ACEC-MS seeks to:
- Promote the economic welfare and professional integrity of its members.
- Advance the value of the professional engineer to the public regarding the work of the professional engineer.
- Promote harmony, cooperation, and mutual understanding among independent professional engineers engaged in private practice.
- Insure that ethical professional standards worthy of an independent professional engineer are maintained.
- Act as a clearing house, an information center, and as a continuing education center for all its members.
- Offer a reliable source of information when requested by prospective clients regarding the professional engineering qualifications of member firms.
WHAT IS A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER IN PRIVATE PRACTICE?
Professional engineers are individuals who, because of their training in one or more engineering specialties, are licensed professional engineers by the state.
Professional engineers in private practice either own or are employees of engineering companies, commonly referred to as "Consulting Engineers". Consulting engineers serve private and public clients in ways ranging from brief consultations to the complete design and coordination of a project. They are often the technical liaison between other design professionals, process specialists, contractors, suppliers and the client.
A professional engineers' specialties may include a broad spectrum of engineering technologies, including the fields of civil, electrical, structural, mechanical, chemical, environmental, metallurgical, geotechnical, and transportation engineering. They may also concentrate in specific fields such as soil mechanics, sanitation, hydrology or petroleum.
A professional engineer may provide general consultation, feasibility reports, planning studies, design, cost estimates, rate studies, project development, patent assistance, and preparation of environmental documents/studies.
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