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Originally Posted by wilnj
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.
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I think this probably varies by state, but from what I've seen you need to have graduated from an ABET accredited school.
I kind of forgot that I was an EIT in mechanical engineering. I got it but transferred into the project management path before I had the experience to go for the PE. Thankfully I've never really dealt with elitism from PEs, but then again I haven't worked with many architects. My wife works with them on the daily and lordy lordy the tone they use with anyone not an architect is so condescending.