Engineering in the states

Hey guys,

Edited by FROG MAN - 12 July 2010 at 7:00pm

That 4 year working period as an EIT could be considered an apprenticeship I believe.

Lol i just graduated with a degree in engineering.

My way of doing it: 5 years of school at RIT, which is on the Quarter system. That means each year i take 3 sets of classes that are 10 weeks long and then 1 week of finals. This is opposed to a semester school which has 2 sets of classes that are 16 weeks long with 2 weeks of finals.

The class schedule itself is 4 years long, and then every degree requires 50 weeks of co-op (5 10-week blocks). I studied abroad which involved transferring to a semester school, so they dropped a co-op block for me and i only did 40 weeks so the scheduling would match up when i got back to the states.

To become a PE, you need to first take the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) Exam. Info for the FE can be found here.

Depending on which state youre in, you have to have been in the field for a certain amount of time before you can take the FE and then a certain amount of time before you take the PE exam. My friends who are civil engineers pretty much HAVE to be PE's to get work, so they all took the FE in april. Going into the medical field, it isnt as big of a deal if i am not a PE, so i skipped it this time around.

Edit: Im pretty sure the civils i know took the FE in PA, which allows you to take it while still in school, because i dont think NY does. Not positive on that though, as i said, i didnt take it.

Edited by NiQ-Toto - 12 July 2010 at 9:03pm