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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
this is the problem with only defining PE's as engineers, as eric951 was attempting to do.
the reality is that PEs are not the only engineers around. my experience with PEs in civil/evro businesses, is that companies usually only have a couple, and they have tons of engineers that actually do the engineering, and they they have the PE stamp it. so the PE is actually doing the least of the engineering anyway.
meanwhile, there are entire industries that we touch every single day that no PE ever touched anything coming out of them. one wouldnt argue that medical devices have no engineers working on them, and yet, they rarely if ever have a PE touch them.
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The bolded is pretty interesting--I would have expected there to be licensing requirements for that sort of thing. Is it because it requires full submittal and approval from regulatory agencies anyway?
But yes most design groups have a lot of engineers with a smaller subset of PEs. The PE test is a commitment and it isn't easy, plus I think a lot of people don't want the responsibility that comes from stamping something.