which states give you "SE" after your name? 3

[hippo11]

I have passed the SE 1 and SE 2 exams. However, my home state, TN, doesn't recognize someone passing both exams as an SE, still only PE. My question is, what states give you the letters SE after your name? I know Illinois does. How about New York? Georgia?

Thanks

 

[PeterCharles]

"In school, they emphasized that it is unethical for you to use the term "engineer" unless you are licensed."

It's a good job that didn't apply in Victorian England. What would Brunel and Stevenson have called themselves without someone to "license" them.

 

[frv]

PeterCharles-

Your post is a bit anachronistic. There was no such thing as licensure in this period. The same could have been said of medicine. I'm sure all the sake-oil salesmen in the US called themselves "doctors". A more contemporary example would be a PhD in liberal arts

In our field, Eiffel, by any standard, was an extremely accomplished engineer; no license required.

 

[tngolfer]

HgTX, I completely agree but then why are AASHTO questions on the SE1 test. There were a handful I missed on the SE1 yesterday unless the answer was B.

Playing devil's advocate: I understand you have to draw the testing line somewhere and I think buildings vs. bridges is a good line since they deal with different building codes. If they are going to test us and base our license on the fact that a person like me (building design only) can pass a test composed of building and bridge questions, why, technically, can I not design bridges. Since we weren't tested on EE questions, I think there is a big difference.

OT: Can anyone confirm that Washington has a SE3 test?

 

[msquared48]

tngolfer:

You can design any building and bridge with an SE in Washington that you are professionally comfortable with designing . If your specialization is buildings, as mine is, and you are weak in bridge design, as am I, then it is up to you not to design bridges, and me too, which I have not. It's that simple.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[PeterCharles]

FRV,

Exactly, but it didn't stop them being good engineers!

Just taking issue with the concept that qualifications make you an engineer. THEY DON'T!

I've met good engineers without strings of letters after their name, and bad engineers with. Clearly it suits schools to emphasise the importance of qualifications as that perpetuates their existence.

 

[HgTX]

frv: In Texas you're not supposed to call yourself an engineer if you're not licensed (unless you fall under the industrial exemption, but that doesn't seem to apply in the case you're talking about). It doesn't matter who supervises you; you're not an engineer but rather under the supervision of one. I had to call myself an "engineering assistant" till I got my license. I think the companies you're dealing with are misunderstanding the regulations.

Hg

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[frv]

HgTX..

look at section 1001.406 (b) of the TEXAS ENGINEERING PRACTICE ACT AND RULES CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING AND PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING LICENSURE, published by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers:


"a graduate engineer who is employed in a firm registered under under this chapter and who is working under the direct supervision of a licensed professional engineer may use the term "engineer" on the person's stationary or business cards or in personal communications of any character"

 

[HgTX]

frv: Huh. Looks like they added that in 2003. How is that not in conflict with 1001.301, which talks about the restrictions on the use of the term "Engineer"? The only exemption mentioned in that section is the old familiar industrial exemption.

Hg

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