Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm; ET
Cost: $10 NYSSPE/NSPE member - Membership number is required when you register.  If you need your membership number email Jen Miller - jamiller@nysspe.org.  $30 for Non-Members.
Meets NYS Ethics requirement

On March 15th 2018 a pedestrian bridge across a 6 lane highway being built for the Florida International University failed and fell across the highway killing 5 occupants of crushed cars and a worker.    An additional ten persons were injured, six seriously.  The bridge was constructed using a design/build contract and an Accelerated Bridge Construction method.  

This seminar examines the failure and identifies the various times in the design/build process that the design flaws could have been identified and corrected, preventing the failure.  The seminar will also discuss the apparent ethical issues arising during the design and building of the bridge, leading to its failure.

     Speaker: Rebecca A. Bowman, Esq., PE
Rebecca Bowman is the Senior Director, Ethics and Professional Practice with the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). In this role, Bowman is responsible for serving as the subject matter expert on engineering ethics, providing ethics counsel to members in need of guidance and providing management, policy direction, and guidance on ethics in all internal and external operations of the organization. She also serves as the in-house and industry expert on engineering licensure laws and liability laws affecting the profession.