NCEES Records thread784-413550
NCEES Records thread784-413550
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I've been one of the more bitter NCEES participants when they changed their record keeping system. It seemed to be poorly explained, poorly thought out and poorly implemented system.
Well, a few weeks ago I got a postcard from NCEES (basically, the most information I've got from them in years) asking me to sign in to the new system and give it a chance. It didn't work right off, but I sent a help request to their desk and it got straightened out pretty quick. Apparently, I'm back to the NCEES living. I've got no actions to do until and unless I need a record. What hell I have to go through then is not explained, but I see real progress.
Anyway, I thought I owed them a compliment as I haven't missed a chance to rip them before.
Well, a few weeks ago I got a postcard from NCEES (basically, the most information I've got from them in years) asking me to sign in to the new system and give it a chance. It didn't work right off, but I sent a help request to their desk and it got straightened out pretty quick. Apparently, I'm back to the NCEES living. I've got no actions to do until and unless I need a record. What hell I have to go through then is not explained, but I see real progress.
Anyway, I thought I owed them a compliment as I haven't missed a chance to rip them before.
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I didn't need comity to my second jurisdiction until last year (many many years after my first license), so the new system is the first I've had to deal with NCEES. It wasn't the most efficient process an engineering organization could have come up with, but wasn't too painful.
This week, I need comity again, so I went to have my record forwarded and it tells me that I have a gap in my work experience. WHAT? So I look and my record shows that my current employment ended on the date that I first created my record. I need to explain the gap and my only option was to explain why I was unemployed. NOT GOING TO DO THAT! So I edit the last work experience and change the date to show I'm still employed there. I get a warning that the work experience has to be reviewed again and my supervisor will have to sign off again. No big deal.
REJECTED by NCEES.
Really? How could my work experience have been approved the first time I created it, but by updating the end date it's now rejected?
I made the requested changes and it appears that everything is OK again and will be submitting my record to for comity. I think the review process is a little too subjective, though.
--Scott
www.aerornd.com
RE: NCEES Records thread784-413550
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It ain't lying...
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The other issue I have had is where I did not work under a PE after I had gotten my PE as I was the only engineer there (a small electric utility). The issue becomes after a certain point in one's career it is possible that you are either the only PE or the supervisor. Another issue is if one has to go back a number of years, when one is 60yrs old, most of the previous PE supervisors are deceased or retired.