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People with professional engineering titles are the dregs of the engineering profession, they couldn't get work without certification. So they got it and parade
by valuearb 9y ago
People with professional engineering titles are the dregs of the engineering profession, they couldn't get work without certification. So they got it and parade it around like self important dweebs, so that people hopefully won't realize how poorly qualified they actually are.
- Johnny555 9y agoYou are painting a lot of people with a broad brush. I know a number of PE's, (electrical and structural) and they are, as the title says, Professional. They engineer 100 million dollar projects, the aren't just someone pretending to know what they are doing. You're right that "they couldn't get work without certification" but that's because such certification is required for the work they do, it's not some way for them to get work that they are not qualified to do. Do you have a better system of vetting that the engineer that's designing the building you work in is competent?
- valuearb 9y agoI'm all for private certification processes. If they have value customers will prefer and even require them. I'm totally against attempts at labor monopolies by using government to curtail other peoples right to work, and their free speech. Beyond those problems, there is an inherent bias in government certification programs. They are frequently captured by their participants and their standards change over time to focus on excluding outsiders over improving the value of certification. They often become insular and processes become dated.