TSPE Bexar Chapter - May 2023 Chapter Meeting 

Please join us for our May 2023 chapter meeting!

Our speakers are Ms. Trish B. Smith, TSPE Executive Director and Mr. Jim Greer, P.E., TSPE President. They will provide a legislative update. And the 2023-2024 Bexar Chapter Board will be inducted. 

Trish B. Smith is the Executive Director of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers.  Trish has been with TSPE for 25 years.  She is also the Executive Director and a Trustee of the Texas Engineering Foundation and manages the TSPE Political Action Committee for Engineers (PACE). She has served three terms on the NSPE Board of Directors while serving as President of the State Societies Executive Council. Prior to joining TSPE she served as the Coordinator and Program Manager of the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism at Texas Tech University where she assisted in the delivery of engineering ethics seminars to engineering faculty, private firms, TxDOT and engineering students.  She was also Program Manager for the team that developed the Code of Conduct for the NAFTA Mutual Recognition Agreement that was adopted by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the US. In her earlier career she spent over fifteen years involved in the legal field in a variety of positions from legal secretary, paralegal, assistant to the Dean of the Texas Tech School of Law and Administrator of a 55-person law firm.

Jim Greer joined the Texas Utilities Company system in 1984 after completing his BS Electrical Engineering degree at the University of Texas at Arlington in 1984.  In 1990, he obtained his MBA from Texas Christian University.  He completed the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in 2007. Jim has held a number of management and leadership positions at Oncor and its predecessor companies, spanning such areas as engineering, operations and governmental relations. Jim has served as the Chief Operating Officer for Oncor Electric Delivery since 2011.  In this role, Jim oversees all distribution and transmission facility planning, engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance and operations, as well as performance management and continuous improvement activities. Jim is currently serving as the President of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, and serves on the Boards of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (AEIC), Downtown Dallas, Inc. and the Advisory Board of the University of Texas at Arlington. Jim is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, and served on the Texas Board of Professional Engineers (now TBPELS) for 10 years as an appointee of Governor Perry.

Check-in and networking will start at 11:30 am with meeting/presentation following at 12:00 noon.