PE - Distance Education
PE - Distance Education
(OP)
NCEES in a recent article in Licensure Exchange http://ncees.org/licensure/licensur.../le_2005_04.pdf proposed a new scheme for engineers to obtain their Professional Engineering License. In short, a graduate engineer (Bachelor degree from an TAC/ABET accredited school) would be require to obtain 30 credit hours of additional engineering education, along with passing both the FE & PPE exams and 4 years of experience.
When this plan is implemented, though it will be several years, what impact do you think it will have on the Distance Education Market?
Given the fact that more engineers and computer scientist will need to take courses, what innovations to delivery techniques are on the horizon?
What innovations to delivery techniques would you like to see?
When this plan is implemented, though it will be several years, what impact do you think it will have on the Distance Education Market?
Given the fact that more engineers and computer scientist will need to take courses, what innovations to delivery techniques are on the horizon?
What innovations to delivery techniques would you like to see?





RE: PE - Distance Education
As to the effect on Distance Education, I would think the largest impact would be determining the acceptability of the curriculum or information and the ability to provide a record of (successful?) participation. I have attended a few web based seminars and though I mostly like the format and convenience (timeliness of interaction can still be problematic for questions etc.), I could just as easily simply logged in and walked away to do something else. Would it still count towards continued education at that point?
The boards will certainly have their work cut out for them in further defining what is "acceptable" from a continuing education standpoint.
Regards,
RE: PE - Distance Education
30 extra hours of schooling for me now would be almost an impossibility if I decided to go the FE/PE route.
It will be interesting to see how this progresses...
Brian
Pressure Vessels and Autoclave Systems
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