I recently joined NSPE, and this month our local chapter had a discussion about proposed/discussed changes in licensing. In New Mexico (where I live), NSPE is lobbying very hard for undergraduate programs to REDUCE the number of engineering hours required for graduation while increasing the number of Liberal Arts hours. Their reasoning is that they don't think they can get away with making engineering a 5 year program so they want to further gut the undergraduate program to force the board to require an MS prior to taking the test. ABET has said that if New Mexico schools further reduce the number of engineering hours ABET will pull their accreditation for the undergraduate programs, but has indicated that they would consider moving the accreditation to the graduate program (only one or the other can be certified at a given school).
The course catalog that I started school with (1977) was the first one that my university had issued that allowed a BS without meeting a foreign language requirement. People screamed about how colleges were turning into trade schools. The change currently being discussed turns them into something that I can't come up with a polite name for.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
The course catalog that I started school with (1977) was the first one that my university had issued that allowed a BS without meeting a foreign language requirement. People screamed about how colleges were turning into trade schools. The change currently being discussed turns them into something that I can't come up with a polite name for.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist