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|I am interested in finding out the legalities of calling yourself an
|engineer or the position you hold being that of an engineer.  I am a

In the NJ Revised Statutes, Title 45:8:

"it shall be unlawful for any person ... to use the title professional
engineer  or land surveyor or any other title, sign, card or device in
such manner as to tend to convey the impression that such person is
practicing engineering or land surveying or is a professional engineer
or land surveyor, unless such person is duly licensed under the
provisions of this chapter."

"No corporation, firm, partnership, or association shall use or assume a
name involving the word "engineers" or "engineering" or any modification
or derivative of such term, unless an executive officer, if a
corporation, or a member, if a firm, partnership, or association shall
be a licensed professional engineer in the State of New Jersey"

So I guess you can't go around calling yourself a professional engineer,
nor have the word "engineer" in your firm's name.


I have a couple of other questions about the PE:

In the statutes book (this is the NJ version I have, I assume other states
are similar) it states that one must have worked under a licensed
Professional Engineer for a certain amount of time before being eligible
to take the PE test and get licensed.

Now, as a graduating EE I doubt that if I work for a typical
computer/electronics company such as say, HP, that my boss would be a
professional engineer.  Does this mean I can never get a PE license?

-Tom
unprofessional engineer

hundt@occlusal.rutgers.edu:Thomas M. Hundt:201/247-6723(H),932-5843(Lab)