Engineering Registration 4

[Maury]

Illinois is now requiring 30 hours of continuing education in every two year licensing period. I hear rumors about engineers not renewing or going to inactive status rather than complete the education. Does anyone know if there are any studies (maybe in other states) that support or deny that this is happening?

 

[LHA]

Slugger:
That definitely depends on your field. In the Civil field it is illegal to even advertise "engineering" or "engineering services" unless you are licensed. I have never met a civil engineer (not even a tech) without a college degree, although some don't have actual eng. degrees.


Remember: The Chinese ideogram for “crisis” is comprised of the characters for “danger” and “opportunity.”
-Steve

 

[smwpe]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The continuing education requirements of the various states is the best thing that has happened to our profession.

Rather than try to change the requirements, let's focus on trying to convince the public that we are entitled to higher fees.

 

[Slugger926]

Iha - I agree it is illeagle, but does happen in big companies. I am not even sure how it happens. I know TX has changed their law to protect these big companies, in particular with the Telecom field. What some non-licensed engineers are allowed to do is scary!!!!

You should check out AT&T, MCI, Qwest, SBC, Verizon, WilTell, McCloud, and ect.

I work for one that just had a CEO convicted. Also, all of the PE's that I did work with were laid off over the past 3 years. Go figure. And management doesn't really even know what a PE is.

Something else that is questionable is that we typically work projects across many state lines. I am not sure where the exemption is. Most of the time it is safe since it is just connecting pre-engineered equipment, or a local PE building engineer approves our work. It is just hard to have visibility when an engineer is sitting in TX and the work is being done in California or New York.

I know I have personally refused to do some engineering jobs in California without having a local engineering firm signing off that the jobs were safe to do after earthquakes did damage to some of our buildings.