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Sounds like you only know people with Civil PEs, then. There are different examinations and qualifications for different disciplines. Source: my wife is a Nava
by itp 14y ago
Sounds like you only know people with Civil PEs, then. There are different examinations and qualifications for different disciplines.
Source: my wife is a Naval Architecture PE.
- digikata 14y agoNaval Architecture, that's fascinating! That's Naval Architecture as in ship hulls or decks, not harbors etc? Have to say, I poked around at a number of PE certification links first and found a lot of state PE offices linked with Land Surveying. Other sources like wikipedia note that PE certs in the US exempt many interstate industries such as Mechanical, Chemical, and Aerospace Engineering.
- jessaustin 14y agoYeah that's the only kind of PE I've met. As a profession they do not impress. These guys are incapable of imagining anything they haven't done before a hundred times, let alone doing it and putting their seal on it.
- Spooky23 14y agoGenerally speaking, you don't want creative processes for the construction of overpasses, highways, and building construction. You want something that is structurally sound, safe for the application in question, and of a design suitable to being bid on by multiple contractors.
- digikata 14y agoI can't say that I blame them, if I recall correctly, putting their seal on it implies the assumption of legal liability for the fitness of the design by the PE. Under those circumstances, I would make strongly conservative decisions too.