Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!tektronix!orca!pogo!rickc From: rickc@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Rick Clements) Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee Subject: Re: PE exam, EIT exam (was: The Title of Engineer) Message-ID: <7235@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 8 May 89 20:41:03 GMT References: <1429PICHER@MAINE> <13200@paris.ics.uci.edu> <6937@ecsvax.UUCP> <2306@laidbak.UUCP> Reply-To: rickc@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Rick Clements) Distribution: usa Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. Lines: 27 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)