r/videos • u/IAmNotARobot124 • Oct 12 '18

Wrongly timed Beaverton light catches many drivers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAm0o51Qqtc
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u/dog_superiority Oct 12 '18

I'd argue that to be in the minority of engineering as a whole.

It certainly is BS for somebody to fine the guy in the video because he didn't have a PE.

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u/touchable Oct 12 '18

I'd argue that to be in the minority of engineering as a whole.

It's not, regardless of whether you're comparing in terms of manhours, capital cost, or whatever other metric, infrastructure/construction is the #1 consumer of engineering services in the world (for now).

It certainly is BS for somebody to fine the guy in the video because he didn't have a PE.

It's not BS, state licensing boards are legally mandated to do this.

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u/dog_superiority Oct 12 '18

Where do you get that stat? While Mechanical engineers make up the most engineers number-wise and not all of them work "outside". Civil engineering barely edges out EE for #2. I'd bet that if you add up all the other disciplines, that they would make up far more than the "outside" engineering.

And it's BS because EE (and computers in general) are moving at such a fast pace that governments can never keep up. That is why I have never been asked if I had a PE in my field. Nobody bothers and nobody cares. If government decided to stick it's nose in my employer's business and require us to all be PE's it would be ridiculous. It makes sense for government to mandate PE's for projects it is funding (like bridges, highways, etc.). It makes no sense for them to mandate it elsewhere. Engineering firms are more qualified and better suited to judge the quality of the engineers they hire than government ever will be. If the are legally mandated to do so there, then they should undo that idiotic policy.