deerefan
Veteran Member
It depends on the specific field of engineering. I would probably annoy you beyond your wildest imagination.
I am an engineer. I have degrees in engineering from prestigious Universities. I have earned the right to be called an engineer. Over my lifetime I have designed and built: nuclear fuel processing plants, satellites, and payloads for satellites. Never once have I needed a license to do this, and I do not have a stamp. Now the guys who designed the buildings I worked in, they needed a license and they had to stamp the plans for the buildings.
In the field of electrical engineering, the guy who designs an electrical substation needs a license and a stamp. The guy who designs the computer that controls the substation, not only doesn't need one, if he said on a resume that he had the license probably wouldn't get hired.
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In my private life, when I need to build a foundation or a retaining wall, I design it and then bring the plans to a licensed civil or mechanical engineer and pay him to check the plans and stamp them.
Not annoying at all Curly. I am mainly referring to folks in my field-construction-especially structural components. My BIL works in the petroleum industry. Anything he "designs" has to be approved and stamped. He is more along the lines of a project manager than an engineer. He needs a license to do the things required in his field, which he does not have and for some reason refuses to get. I will say he is a tad lazy, not sure of another reason why he won't become licensed. It would be a substantial pay increase and job security. He might just be happy being a PM, not sure. Don't talk to him much, not my kind of dude.