North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering

Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about... by brudgers on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:20PM (#27565028)

The person without a license who is doing something that requires a license is not taking full responsibility for what they are doing.

They are doing something that is only to their own benefit in a context where other people’s lives are at stake.

Quite simply it is unprofessional. A person without a license can hire a licensed professional for oversight. That’s the responsible thing to do.

In the US, engineering licensure requires supervised experience, testing, and typically (but not always) formal education at the bachelor level.

One requirement of professional practice is not working beyond one’s competence irrespective of having a license and engineering boards take that seriously.

I guess that’s the thing, an unlicensed person doing unsupervised work requiring a license is some combination of incompetent, unqualified, or negligent.

To put it another way, licensure ensures that a person has a minimum amount of skill, training, and experience. And that they take responsibility.

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Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about... by jbluepolarbear on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:25PM (#27565495)

But who decides it needs a license? Other licensed individuals? I would do a better job sticking to requirements than a lot of licensed engineers. It’s cheaper and easier for me to do all the work, and then hire a firm to say it passes requirements than getting said license. It gives me the freedom to engineer in any field I’m interested. I have previously done mechanical, electrical, structural, and medical engineering. How would a license help me? It’s waste years of my life, tons of money, jobs in don’t want, and at the end of it I can work in a field I may no longer want to be in.

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Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about... by brudgers on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:12PM (#27566482)

The legislature delegates authority to the board.

Yes you can hire an engineer to supervise your work.

Then you have successfully avoided responsibility for it.

And legally as well.

A license would allow you to take responsibility for what you do.

I can understand why someone wouldn't want it.

I don't understand why someone who has chosen that route whines about it.

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Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about... by lupire on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:07PM (#27566072)

Thats fine. The pount is that the work should be signed off by a licenssd engineer.

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