Re: A brief Survey for Electrical Engineers
From: Terry Given (the_domes_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: 06/18/04
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:00:16 +1200
"Bob Stephens" <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:13:59 -0700, Mike wrote:
>
> > On 14 Jun 2004 01:48:06 GMT, Jem Berkes wrote:
> >
> >>> Do you realize only a small fraction of degreed electrical engineers
> >>> (BSEE, MSEE, PhD) are also licensed professional engineers? If it's
> >>> PEs you're looking for, that's fine, but if you're looking for degreed
> >>> engineers, requiring a PE in addition to the degree may produce a
> >>> skewed result.
> >>
> >> In Canada, only those with a degree from an accredited Engineering
> >> university program can acquire a P. Eng. [ http://www.peng.ca/ ]. Is
the
> >> situation different in the United States? I may have misunderstood your
> >> comment.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the requirements are to get a P. Eng, but in the US
there
> > is no requirement that one get a P. Eng. It looked like Philip was
> > specifying P. Eng.rs, but was possibly looking for degreed engineers,
most
> > of whom are non-P. Eng.rs in the US.
> >
> > -- Mike --
>
> When I was a senior in Engineering, my university offered an optional
short
> course in preparation for the P.E. exam. They claimed that it was a good
> idea to take the test - if at all - right after graduating while the
course
> material was still fairly fresh in your mind since a lot of the material
is
> so arcane that one wouldn't encounter it in an entire career in
> engineering. They also maintained that the primary reason to get a PE was
> that some larger engineering firms required a PE somewhere on the staff to
> sign off on prints. Don't know how valid any of this was or is.
>
>
> Bob
in New Zealand we have "Registered Engineers." As with P.E. in the US,
civil/electrical works tend to require registration. I have not done so, but
only because it currently has no value to me - I am currently studying for
my electrical service technician "B" ticket, which allows me to work on
single- and three-phase fixed-wiring installations - almost the same as an
electricican, but I cant install fixed wiring (who cares - thats what god
invented apprentices for). The funny thing is, to become a registered
electrician I have to have 2,000 hours pulling cables, and CAT5 data cabling
is OK ?!? Of course I find this all hilarious, as I have spent more than a
decade designing high-power smps/motor drives (several at 1MW).
Up until fairly in NZ, the Reg.Eng. test required one to design bridges &
trusses. Software people found this fairly difficult :). Now you just have
to write a lengthy "what I did in the last 10 years" waffly story, then
undergo a grilling where they look for systematic methodologies,
professionalism, project management skills etc. It takes a lot of work to
compile the necessary info, hence my reluctance to do so. But eventually...
Cheers
Terry
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