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Originally Posted by Eric 951
In my experience there are (2) types of actinal "engineers". Those who operate heavy equipment--following in the train engineer vein--"operating engineers", and those who hold some type of stamp(professional engineer). Regardless of anyone's education, experience, talent, skills, etc. anything less is not a true 'Engineer" You can be the best designer in the world, but if you submit a drawing without a "stamp", it equates to (2) things "jack" and "****". This is not to downplay anyone's abilities or education, but anything less is just not an "Engineer" in the true professional sense.
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Worked with thousands of engineers, managed hundreds of them over the decades from all over the world. Only demographic that regularly stamped drawings and reports were Canadian. This varies highly regionally and by industry. With a stamp on your drawings and 5$ + tip you can buy a coffee at starbucks for oil and gas, it just doesn't matter even the tinniest bit. No legal requirements to have a PE license for many regions and fields.
EIT wasn't a high bar in the ye olden days when I was in school, I think the pass rate for the school I attended was well over 90%. I skipped my appointment because I was a college kid and early saturday morning. No regrets