Engineering in the states
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Topic: Engineering in the states
Posted By: FROG MAN
Subject: Engineering in the states
Date Posted: 12 July 2010 at 6:59pm
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Hey guys,
I know a few of you here know about engineering, and I am a little confused about how the proffesion works in the states. I heard on a podcast, and read forums a few times people say things like, "I have complete my engineering aprenticship", what does that mean?
In canada to be a legal engineer you need to complete a 4 year degree, then a 4 year working period were you are considered an EIT (eingeer in training), then you are a P.eng (proffesional engineering) and you get your stamp.
Is that how it works in the states? Also, do engineers in the states where an Iron pinky ring like they do in Canada? ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 12 July 2010 at 7:26pm
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 July 2010 at 7:58pm
| That 4 year working period as an EIT could be considered an apprenticeship I believe. |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 12 July 2010 at 8:05pm
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There is more to it than that link if what I've heard from my engineer friends is correct. You basically get a bachelors degree in engineering, find a job at a firm where you work as what is akin to an associate at a law firm before they have taken the BAR exam. Then your firm sends you off for specialized training in whatever your firm does, you take a licensing exam that is equivalent to the BAR exam for attorneys, and you are then an engineer. Or at least that is how my friend is doing it. I suppose there might be other ways, but that is how he is doing it. All in all, I don't really know, but I have anecdotal experience. ------------- 
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Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 12 July 2010 at 9:00pm
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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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Engineering_exam - 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. ------------- ///AMG What? |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 12 July 2010 at 9:46pm
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FROG MAN wrote: