The National Society of Professional Surveyors states that we shall “encourage high standards of ethical and professional behavior.” The Texas Society of Professional Surveyors parallels and adds to this statement. This session will teach attendees about Professional Ethics and knowing the difference between what you have the right to do versus what is right to do. This will not be your typical presentation on Ethics and when completed, you will think more deeply about the decisions made every day. 

*Three Ethics PDHs; fulfills yearly TBPELS requirement. 

Joseph D. Fenicle, PS is a full time Professor at the University of Akron for their award-winning Surveying/Mapping Program in Akron, Ohio. Immediately prior to that Fenicle was the Chief Surveyor with the Office of the Fulton County Engineer in Wauseon, Ohio from 2005 to 2020. Fenicle worked with J.C. Andrus & Associates in Toledo, Ohio from 1996 to 2005 and specialized in boundary retracement and remonumentation in both Ohio & Michigan.  In 2003, he took a sabbatical to New Hampshire and represented a large multidisciplinary firm surveying throughout multiple New England states. Fenicle was also an adjunct faculty member with Owens Community College teaching various surveying courses between 2002 and 2009 and at the University of Toledo in 2019. Fenicle is also a long-time member of the remonumentation peer group for Lenawee and earlier Monroe Counties Michigan. He continues to write, research and speak on various surveying related topics and also runs a business specializing in continuing professional development for land surveyors across the nation.  Fenicle received his AAS in GIS/GPS from Hocking Technical College and a BS in Surveying/Mapping from the University of Akron and is currently pursuing his MS from the University of Maine. He became licensed in Ohio in 2002 and in Michigan in 2004.  He obtained his FAA license in 2019.