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Criminal charges aside, I thought the whole premise of having licensed engineers was that licenses can be revoked if the engineer screws up badly enough. Presum
by lolinder 2y ago
Criminal charges aside, I thought the whole premise of having licensed engineers was that licenses can be revoked if the engineer screws up badly enough. Presumably this CPE has a license in some engineering discipline and should most definitely not have that license anymore, no?
If we can't even get that right we're definitely not going to escalate to criminal charges.
- nyokodo 2y ago> I thought the whole premise of having licensed engineers was that licenses can be revoked if the engineer screws up badly enough The cynical take is that the primary role of industry licensing bodies is to limit competition to insiders. I suppose we’ll find out if it’s more realistic than cynical if this individual remains licensed.
- CuriousCosmic 2y agoYes and no. In some industries (namely civil), licensed engineers actually deal with the weight of their licenses. In others it seems like there isn't enough weight for licensed engineers to actually care. A bunch of engineers may work on a project but then a handful quickly go through and sign off on the drawings. You could go through your entire career as a mech E or chem E without getting a license. You still do the same job, just someone else signs off on it. So there is unfortunately in a lot of places a culture where licensing is less about holding the actual engineers responsible and more about having a designated fall guy to throw to the wolves in the event something goes wrong.
- lolinder 2y agoWell, right, but where is the fall guy at Boeing? Someone put their signature on everything, why are they still practicing?
- addandsubtract 2y agoAlso, what is the "responsibility" of a C-level, if not for faults like this? I thought that was the argument for getting 7+ figures.