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In article <2306@laidbak.UUCP> jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
}All this discussion brings up a question that nobody was able to answer
}to my satisfaction 10 years ago...  What is the point of going
}through the EIT/PE exams?  I realize that certain types of
}engineering require licensing; civil engineering and nuclear engineering
}come to mind as prime examples.  But why PE?  When I asked
}that question 10 years ago, all the answers seemed to indicate that
}the movement was started by a group of engineers who were upset
}that someone with a 2 year degree and 10 years of experience could
}carry the same title (and salary) as someone with a bright shiny
}BS and a Mercedes to match.  No flames please!

When I looked into the PE exam, about 10 years ago also, attending an
engineering school was not a requirement.  For the EIT exam you needed
4 years of experience; they COULD be as a student.  To take the PE exam
you needed 4 more years of experience.  They had to be all work experince.

}So I ask again, what's the point?  Why should I bother?

I'm not sure.  I changed from Electrical Engineering to Computer Engineering
while I was in school.  At that time Computer Engineering was not recoginized.
So, I never bother to take the EIT exam.  I have yet to need it professionally.
If you get called into court and you are a PE, you are an expert witness.

-- 
Rick Clements (RickC@pogo.WV.TEK.COM)