Pub. 15 2022-2023 Issue 2

Brad Mortensen, the recipient of the UCLS 2021 Surveyor of the Year Award and the Utah Engineers Council (UEC) 2022 nominee for the Engineering Educator of the Year Award, has been honored once again by the UCLS. This time, he has been presented with the prestigious UCLS 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his […]

UCLS Board, From May 28-31, I attended the FIG Working Week in Orlando, Florida. The conference was an eye-opening experience that focused on how we can attract the next generation to surveying. There were a lot of great ideas and meetings on how we can accomplish this. The first I want to mention is Get

The Standards and Ethics Committee meets every fourth Thursday at 5:00 pm at Meridian Engineering, located at 1628 West 11010 South, Suite 102 in South Jordan, Utah. Current items of business being discussed by the Committee: Condominium Model Standards — The Condominium Model Standards were submitted to the Board and approved on April 14, 2023. The new

Since our last update, we have had two luncheons. We are also working with the Ogden school district as well as the Historical Committee on placing a monument commemorating the Hayden Survey. We have sent a location and photo of what we want our monument to be and are awaiting a response from the school

Since our last update, we have had three luncheons: The first luncheon was presented by Jim Pitkin who is our DOPL representative. He gave us great information and we thanked him for presenting to us. The second luncheon was presented by Trent Williams on Education and Outreach. The turnout was about 15 fewer participants than

Celebrities often use their charisma to highlight social or environmental movements. The prominent guitarist Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead rock band advocated for the preservation of the world’s rain forests, and he spoke with a mixture of candor, humility and sadness about his involvement. When asked why The Grateful Dead was participating in the