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Subject:Re: State Laws? From:"Tamminga, Ernie" <et -at- DSC -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:45:12 -0700
Pat Gantt ~ pagantt -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net wrote:=
> If you want to call yourself an engineer go through the grueling testing
>and licensing procedure. If you are incapable of passing the test then
>cease calling yourself an engineer. Afraid you can't make the grade?
>
>-- =
> Wow!! Sounds like the NPSE (the folks who are trying to get everyone to
>have to go through THEIR test in order to use the word "engineer" are really
>going for major grandeur, overlaying their own particular "qualifying
>standards" on top of anyone else's exam that qualifies you as a such-&-such
>engineer.
>
>As someone else pointed out in a post, their exam would have to be so
>comprehensive as to cover railroad-train-drivers, civil engineers, etc. etc.
>
>Seems kinda paranoid...
>
>
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