Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ark1!dtoa3!dtoa1!lumsdon From: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon) Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee Subject: Re: Professional Engineer Message-ID: <146@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil> Date: 28 Sep 89 21:30:30 GMT References: <22532@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil Reply-To: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Esther Lumsdon) Distribution: usa Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD Lines: 25 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