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NCSS is partnering with the Johnston County Chapter to present this seminar.

Registration begins at 7:30 am and class concludes at 4:30 pm.  Breakfast and lunch are included.

Topics:

• Boundary Law - 5.5 Hours

• Ethics - 1 Hour

• Standards of Practice - 1 Hour

Instructor:

Dr. Jerry Nave, PLS is an assistant professor of Geomatics at NC A&T State University where he teaches courses in boundary location and legal principles, land systems, geodetic surveying, satellite positioning, ethics and professionalism and subdivision design. He earned his BS and MS in Surveying and Mapping and his doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University. He received his PLS in 1993 and has over 21 years of experience in the private and public sectors.

NCSS is partnering with the Western Chapter to present this seminar.          Click Here for Location Map

Check-In begins at 7:30 am and class concludes at 4:30 pm.  (Lunch is included.)

Topics: 

• Board Case Studies ( Ethics and Standards of Practice*) by Richard M. (Mike) Benton, PLS

This presentation will take an in-depth look at several actual Board cases to see what went wrong resulting in a complaint being filed with the Board of Examiners.  We will discuss the facts of the case and analyze what the licensee could or should have done differently that may have avoided the complaint. Topics covered during this presentation will be ethics, standards of practice, how to protect the public, and the best ways to avoid a complaint. 

*This will provide ethics and standards of practice PDHs for two years. Please keep in mind that if you carry over one hour of each, then you will need to exceed the annual requirement of 15 PDHs by 2 additional hours for the current year. Please see FAQ’s at the Board site. https://www.ncbels.org/continuing-education/individuals/#faqs

Instructor:   

Richard M. (Mike) Benton, PLS  was born and raised in Goldsboro, NC. He graduated from Eastern Wayne High School in 1976 and attended the college transfer program at Wayne Community College from 1976-1978. He graduated from Coastal Carolina Community College with an AAS degree in Surveying Technology in 1982. In 1991, after living and working several years in Greenville, NC, Mike moved back home to Goldsboro and established Benton & Associates Land Surveying and Mapping, PA. Mike has been an active member of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS) since 1991, serving as the chairman of the Formal Education Committee from 1993-2000, President of NCSS in 2003, and the North Carolina Delegate to the Board of Governors for the National Society of Professional Surveyors from 2008-2013. On November 06, 2012, Mike was appointed by Governor Beverly Perdue to serve on the Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors

• Business 101 for Surveyors: An Overview on Where to Start  by Dean Exline, PLS
• Business 101 for Surveyors: Surveying Contract by Dean Exline, PLS

Instructor:

Dean D. Exline, PLS is the founder and President of GeoInnovation, PC. He has 33 years experience as a land surveyor and is licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Idaho, Alabama and the US Virgin Islands. His background includes extensive experience in boundary, construction staking, GPS and conventional survey control, dam deformation measurements, topographic surveys, small hydrographic surveys, coal pile quantity surveys, and power line surveys. In addition to being a speaker at various Professional Land Surveying Conferences around the US, he has authored technical papers on the use and economics of robotic surveying and the use of GPS to perform dam deformation measurements both nationally and internationally. He is a professional member of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors, the Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio, and the Idaho Society of Surveyors.