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From: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon)
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Subject: Re: Professional Engineer
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Date: 28 Sep 89 21:30:30 GMT
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Reply-To: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Esther Lumsdon)
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In Virginia and Maryland, the state governments administer EIT and PE
exams, and collect fees. There should be some agency in the Pennsylvania
government that does these same things, although the name might not
give you an abvious clue.  If one of your professors is a PE, he or
she would certainly know the procedures. If you didn't get your BS in
Pittsburgh, then you could ask someone in a local university's EE department,
or ask your local Information Referral Center for directions.

In Virginia and Maryland (and, I suspect, all states in the USA), one
must pass the EIT exam, fulfill a work-years requirement and pass the
PE exam, to become a PE. The work-years requirement usually has criteria
attached to it such as:  the work must be engineering in nature, you
must be supervised by another engineer, you must keep some sort of records,
etc.

The EIT test is a general test; ME's, EE's, CE's and ChE's all take
the same EIT test. PE tests cover your field only.

_Many_ universities are EIT test sites.

I only know about Virginia and Maryland, as I haven't lived anywhere
else since before university.

Esther Lumsdon, CDP, CSP
DTRC Code 1411, Annapolis Lab