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>Your honor, it's not important to define what an engineer is, or isn't. THIS IS AN EXPERT! In all honesty this doesn't help non-engineers larping as engineers
by LanzVonL 3y ago
>Your honor, it's not important to define what an engineer is, or isn't. THIS IS AN EXPERT!
In all honesty this doesn't help non-engineers larping as engineers. It just means, you have the right to present yourself as something you're not, even if it's a lie.
- inamberclad 3y agoThe point of this case was that an expert can testify without licensure, not that they can misrepresent themselves to the public.
- tnecniv 3y agoEh it really depends on the context. When I got my EE degree I was told getting your PE only really mattered if you worked on the power grid or similar. It wasn’t that you were less of an engineer or an expert without it but that 1) you didn’t need the legal ability to sign design documents most of the time 2) even if you took the exam to become an FE, the odds of you working under a licensed PE to get the requisite hours was so small it wasn’t worth the effort to take the FE exam. If the case involved a field where a PE is standard, the expert witness should 100% have that license. However that’s a small number of sub-fields in practice and doesn’t necessarily correlate with practical experience.
- anonymousab 3y agoYou can be an expert of engineering and perform engineering work without being acknowledged or licensed by some authority. A country can have engineers before they even have a PE org or guild or system, after all.