Like I said, there are exceptions (and plenty of companies are less than perfectly abiding). Personally, I think it's kind of a silly rule anyhow.
"Boohoo, I'm an engineer" Meh, get over it. Like what you do or change it. Quit worrying about others.
Abiding to what? There's is no law or rule in writing anywhere that a working "engineer" must hold a PE. You only need a PE if you're in a position to sign off on something that affects the public (mostly civil engineers).
I know. But the TBPE code also pretty clearly states that to refer to yourself as an engineer without a PE is a no-no (rule 1001.004). How is that enforced? I assume via the state of texas but I'm not sure and I honestly don't care. You are correctly given the title "engineer" via rule 1001.406, which allows for such nomenclature providing you are working under a licensed PE. Anyhow...I don't want to argue about it. It's fairly silly if you ask me - I'm just relaying what I learned in the course of applying for the damn thing.
The rule is basically in place to stop people (i.e. inspectors, superintendents, etc) from calling themselves engineers. It's a dumb rule, and I agree that it's mainly about semantics. Oh, and good luck Rhada!!
yup i never heard of such a thing.. Almost every single company here including large ones like Apple, Sony, Qualcomm, Google, etc etc etc just require you to have BS degree and your title can be engineer.. or whatever the hell they want it to be.
What kind of materials have you been using? I recently got the Civil Engineering package from PPI....that seems to have a LOT of the info that is needed, including practice exams, reference manuals, and tricks to studying. I've heard that people roll into the exam with wagonloads of reference books...that just seems insane to me. Are you going to take, or have you taken, any prep courses or anything?
I've seen some reasonably priced online prep courses (basically they just give you access to an instructor for help etc) but I did not sign up for any. I'm using PPI's materials, a few other reference books, and the NCEES practice exam. If you're in Houston testmasters has a pretty good reputation for exam courses (although not for ChE). I used them for FE prep and found it quite helpful. I don't intend to take much more than a few reference books and a binder full of misc. other stuff (standards/rules of thumb/etc)
This has (had?) been an ongoing battle in Canada and the US. Engineering bodies wanted people like "network engineers" and "software engineers" to drop their "engineer" title because they didn't believe they were truly "engineers". I think in the US, every state protects the title of "engineer" differently, and on top of that, I'm not sure if its heavily enforced.
To the OP... you'll never be the best at what you do. I'm reasonably confident of that there will always be someone better than you. Do your best and enjoy life. There are too many things in life to enjoy, experience, and learn about rather than focus on one thing and go insane while self-doubting yourself along the way. Then one day you look up and wonder where your life went ...
He has a foreign education, he won't get employment anywhere in North America without some sort of license.
