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The definition of engineering is very broad. I'm glad it's not merely reserved for, "safety critical." However, "safeguarding economic interests," is... basically any business that operates software as a service or creates software for commercial use. Hopefully we won't have to test jurisprudence on this but sheesh. In Ontario the PEO requires an academic component to qualify. Super. So I have twenty years of industry experience and probably know more about the state of the art than what is taught in any of the CAEB programs... > Please note, there are currently zero graduate degree engineering programs accredited by the CEAB. Never mind, you can't even get into a program that grants this requirement. Presumably you might be able to squeeze in under the experience requirement? It's unclear. It's also unclear why anyone would go through this process. The academic requirement will ensure you live with at least a decade worth of crushing debt for a job market that would basically avoid you if you put the designation on your resume. As far as I can tell there are few commercial institutions that wouldn't be better off hiring a non-P.Eng and can still operate their business with significant disregard for the economic interests of society. I'm all for finding a way to bring a useful form of liability into our industry to protect people from the rampant fraud, data brokering, security leaks, and general, "lol break things, disrupt society, make money," trends. However I think, unless I'm mistaken, there ought to be a way to bring people into the designation who have the industry experience but lack the academic requirement and, more importantly, the companies have a reason to hire P.Eng's and pay attention to them. |