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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:46 AM

California Engineering Statute Needs Fixing

California has a convoluted engineering statute that needs fixing. For many years, reasonable legislative initiatives proposed by the PE board, legislators, and other interests have failed due, in large part, to testimony and political influence from...
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Monday, November 28, 2011 10:47 AM

Licensure of Engineering R&D Principal Investigators

Many in the engineering licensure community have for decades bemoaned the fact that the percentage of engineering faculty licensed as professional engineers has been declining. This continuing trend is due to a variety of factors, outlined in a previous...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:08 AM

Engineering Firm Certifications: A Barrier to Mobility in Some States

In recent years, tremendous strides have been made in engineering licensure in the U.S. to promote mobility and expedited comity licensure for individual PE licenses. In many states, a PE who meets the definition of a Model Law Engineer, and has an up...
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Monday, August 01, 2011 2:02 PM

Taking the PE Exam Early

A trend among states to allow early taking of the PE exam is accelerating. For many years, California has allowed candidates to take the PE exam in preparation for licensure after only two years of engineering experience. In recent years, Nevada, Arizona...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:55 AM

NSPE Has a Higher Purpose

A number of years ago, NSPE reinvented itself, as most organizations do periodically, and adopted a new set of mission, vision, and goal statements . At that time, based on the specific verbiage of NSPE’s goals, my thought was that NSPE had “turned...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:11 AM

Faculty Licensure: How Can We Increase the Numbers?

Licensure among engineering faculty members has been on the decline in many institutions for decades. There are a number of reasons for this, some of which are as follows: Blurring of engineering and science. Many faculty members with Ph.D.s in engineering...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:45 AM

Licensing Structural Engineers: Oklahoma Proposes Novel Approach

The Oklahoma State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors has proposed a novel approach to recognize the advanced qualifications of structural engineers who have passed the 16-hour structural engineering examination. The proposal...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 10:05 AM

Industrial Exemptions: A Proposed NSPE Policy

The NSPE Licensure and Qualifications for Practice Committee has proposed that the NSPE Board of Directors and House of Delegates consider adopting a new policy regarding industrial exemptions. The rationale for proposing the policy is as follows: “In...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:08 PM

The 80% Myth in the Engineering Profession – Part II

An earlier article addressed the often claimed myth in the engineering profession that 80% of engineering graduates work as engineers in industry. That article didn’t present any data, just a compelling hypothesis that engineering graduates go into...
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Monday, November 15, 2010 9:42 AM

Professional Engineers Ontario Removes Cross Border Engineering Practice Barriers

Canadian professional engineers in the western and maritime provinces have for many years worked closely with U.S. PE boards—mostly in border states—to foster mobility for Canadian engineers in the U.S., and for U.S. engineers in Canada. It...
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Monday, November 08, 2010 1:36 PM

Continuing Education: Make It Count

About 40 engineering licensure jurisdictions in the U.S. now require continuing professional development for renewal of PE licenses, and most professional engineers are now regularly accumulating professional development hours, or PDHs. The rules in almost...
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Monday, September 13, 2010 7:43 AM

The 80% Myth in the Engineering Profession

There are two axioms that are often cited regarding the engineering profession. One is that only about 20% of those who graduate with a B.S. in engineering in the U.S. go on to become licensed professional engineers. This one is true. The second, and...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010 9:26 AM

NCEES Considers New Pathways to Licensure

At the 2010 Annual Meeting of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, NCEES leaders continued discussions regarding the details of the engineering educational requirements in the Model Law as of 2020. In 2006, NCEES modified its...
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Monday, August 30, 2010 10:56 AM

A Win-Win-Win for Texas Engineers

Take this for what it is, the opinion of one person who is not from Texas, and for what little it may be worth because of that. Texas engineers are currently discussing an initiative of structural engineers in Texas to establish discipline-specific licensure...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010 2:19 PM

NSPE Adopts Position Statement on Engineering Education Outcomes

At its April 2010 Board of Directors meeting, NSPE adopted a new position statement advocating that certain engineering education outcomes be attained by engineers of all disciplines who become licensed professional engineers. These outcomes, listed below...
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