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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
again outside of civil/environmental, PE is not useful or required or valued.
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If by civil you’re capturing all construction trades, you’d be right but to file for a permit, all drawings need to be signed and sealed including civil (site work), structural, mechanical (plumbing/hvac/fire protection) and electrical.
The way I define it, is an engineer is a problem solver applying science and or technology. There are many people with a formal education who are not engineers and many without a formal education who are.
There was a time when someone could sit for the PE without a degree but who had a CV demonstrating his experience working under a licensed engineer. I doubt that’s the case anymore.
I’ve dealt with this elitism firsthand. At a kickoff meeting, I introduced myself as the project engineer and the d****bag of an Architect asked what portion of the project I had designed. I replied that my job was to catch his mistakes before they cost our mutual client money.