Joseph D. Fenicle, PS is the Program Director and full time Assistant 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 from 1996 to 2005 and specialized in boundary retracement and remonumentation in 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 formerly Monroe County 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, BS in Surveying/Mapping from the University of Akron, a MS from the University of Maine and is currently pursuing his Doctorate also from the University of Maine. He became licensed in Ohio in 2002 and in Michigan in 2004. He obtained his FAA license in 2019. Fenicle relocated from Michigan to Ohio in the summer of 2020. He resides in Hudson, Ohio with his wife of over twenty years and three teenage boys who help him survey.
