Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about...
by dasudasu on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:21PM
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His exemption makes his field of practice much more limited than a fully licensed engineer and didn't seem to cover making legal advice in court. Court experts should indeed be held to high standards. At this point, being called an engineer is just semantics. In many other locales, someone not licensed is not even allowed to call themselves that, regardless of their degrees.
Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about...
by resoluteteeth on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:08PM
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> In many other locales, someone not licensed is not even allowed to call themselves that, regardless of their degrees
But as the grandparent comment you responded to explained, he isn't calling himself that, because he declared that he wasn't a licensed engineer. Shouldn't the court be able to decide whether to accept him as an expert witness?
Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about...
by mcguire on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:24PM
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§ 89C-25. Limitations on application of Chapter. (https://ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter...)
"(4) Engaging in engineering or land surveying as an employee or assistant under the responsible charge of a professional engineer or professional land surveyor." is, I think, the only one to apply.
So imagine if 80% of doctors didn't have some sort of license allowing them to speak about their practice.
> In fact, like the majority of engineers nationwide, Wayne was not required to get a license since he worked for a company under the state’s “industrial exception.”
> By some estimates, 80% of engineers nationwide work legally without a license. By the Board’s interpretation, most engineers in North Carolina could not legally comment publicly on engineering.