Not all states offer the PE software engineering exam; Califorina and Washington, for example, do not. Moreover, the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, which is

Not all states offer the PE software engineering exam; Califorina and Washington, for example, do not. Moreover, the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, which is a prerequisite for becoming a PE contains topics most practicing programmers would never have encountered and the rest would barely remember if they had. (Thermodynamics? Differential equations? Really?) I'd say that either the ACM or IEEE Computer Society needs to develop an equivalent certification process and lobby to have states adopt it for licensure.