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“The sense that my frontier has vanished produces my strongest emotion about Texas.” - Larry McMurtry (1968, 'In a Narrow Grave')
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First Friday Coffee & Conversations
FFCC is an informal faculty-focused session starting 8:15 AM the Watt Center Café (or via Zoom) for casual networking.
Six Week Priority
For the entirety of March, and until April 9th, we focus on preparing response to proposed changes to the IEEE 2028 National Electrical Safety Code, and to prepare fresh new ideas for the 2028 NFPA National Electrical Code. Topics coverage normally scheduled for this time of year will be accessible but our daily online meetings will start with work on those two standards. To join the "code-writing and vote-getting" use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Roadway Electric
Copyright restrictions prohibit our sharing of the First Draft of the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code. IEEE should be making this draft free of charge according to ANSI's Incorporation by Reference Recommendations but, alas, we pick our battles. We have purchased the Draft Copy and have been discussing the changes for the past several weeks and will continue to do so until the March 24th deadline
Quadrivium: Winter
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
7th Edition (2018): Geometric Design of Highways & Streets
The last reorganization of the Green Book that we can track emphasizes transportation of people, rather than focusing primarily on moving vehicles. A new chapter discusses multimodal level of service and puts greater emphasis on lower-speed, walkable, urban zones in which new mobility technologies are emerging such as micro-scooters.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Standards March: Water
Curated list of our interest and accomplishments in water-related codes, standards and related best practice literature.
Spring Break
MSU Professor Glendon Swarthout wrote the 1960 novel "Where the Boys Are" which popularized the diaspora of Michigan college students down to Florida. The book inspired the Hollywood movie popular song of the same name.