Professors worry that engineering students don't tinker enoug h...

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Dec 8 10:19:11 2000

> Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > False. In most states of the U.S., if you represent yourself as an
engineer
> > of any kind, and you are not a licensed engineer, you are committing a
crime,
> > albeit a misdemeanor.
>
> Not in California, unless it's one of a handful of engineering disciplines
> specifically identified by statute. You'd pretty much have to sign
> "P.E." after your name to get in trouble here.
>
> This isn't to imply that California is particularly progressive in this
> area (for some value of "progressive"), but rather that nobody has
> bothered revising the statutes since being an "engineer" automatically
> implied civil, geological or the sort that operates trains...

Well, in contrast with how regressive other states are, I'd indeed call
that progressive.

-dq
Received on Fri Dec 08 2000 - 10:19:11 GMT