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Brian  <byeag@umr.edu> wrote:
>> Why do we, real engineer, allow our title, "engineer",  to become so
>> cheap and degenerated to a BS joke? I guess that explain why the
>> typical engineers are said to be a bunch of entroverts and nerds.
>
>Look, if you do not have PE after your title, you are not a "real"
>engineer.  A BS alone in an engineering field does not qualify you to be
>an engineer.

The pure statistics of how few working engineers in the US have
PE certification shows the lie in that claim.  I think it's down
around 4-5%.

What does PE do?  Besides a nice sheet of paper, in most states it
lets you sign off on certain final approvals on civil engineering
and construction project designs.  It probably is a bonus for your
paycheck.  It indicates that at some point you passed the EIT and
then jumped through some on the job hoops.  But it in no way is
required for you to do the calculations and design work needed
to be "an engineer".  Either you know what you are doing or you
don't, and no piece of paper either is required for that ability
or enables it magically.  Unless you're in a position where you
are doing civil engineering and need to sign work off, it's not
in any way a job requirement.


-george william herbert
gherbert@crl.com