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Default More short-term thinking from Repubicans

Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:17:14 -0500, wrote:

The best chance to make a lot of money in engineering is to be a PE. A
PE with a stamp can make a quarter million a year and it is all up
from there depending on how good a business person you are.


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How does that work? I am totally ignorant about what PEs do, and how
they become qualified.


You need to take a qualifying test, and then work under the supervision of
a PE. Then pass a state test and be signed off by a PE. I took the first
test Engineer In Training EIT when I graduated university. My problem was
I worked in companies without a PE, and most of the computer peripheral
makers did not have a PE on staff. So was in a non PE position. Basically
a PE says you know what you are doing and are liable for your output.