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uncle_big_green
Jan 28, 2003, 3:38 PM
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Bigdrop,
on the academic level in the US, you can say that you are an engineer if you have a degree from an ABET approved program. In certain disciplines like chemical engineering, you'll almost never need to become a licensed Professional Engineer (PE). If you want to go far as a Civil Engineer, then getting a PE is mandatory.
To become a PE, you must first pass the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (formerly the Engineer in Training Exam). This will get you licensed as an EIT. Most people take the FE during their last year of school while all that stuff isn't as fuzzy as it is now. After working under a PE for 4 yrs. (with an ABET approved degree), you are eligible to take the PE. I think that graduate work may be used towards the 4 yrs. However, if you do not have an ABET degree, you can still take the FE and the PE. You have to wait longer - 7 yrs. I think (not sure). Also, passing the PE allows you to get a license in the state(s) where you wish to practice. There are also continuing education requirement to maintain the PE license (seminars and such). Now you know.
I have a BSME from Georgia Tech and passed the FE. Depending on where I go career wise, I may or may not take the PE.
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gypsy
Jan 28, 2003, 3:45 PM
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Hmmm, funny...I'm a youth minister, but my boyfriend (and climbing partner) is a graphic designer (i.e. computer geek).
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reborne
Jan 29, 2003, 3:03 AM
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I think I have the connection here its like fight club or the pussification of america. When you sit behind a desk all day and have no excercise or visual sense of acomplishment as you would if you say built things with your hands (wich is very gratifying by the way in mush the same way as climbing i framed houses to pay my way through engineering school). climbing helps to fill the void this type of a sense of accomplishment
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cookiecrumb
Jan 29, 2003, 3:51 AM
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Full-time computer geek... part-time scientist (also a geek occupation).
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calamity_chk
Jan 29, 2003, 3:55 AM
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i dont live in a computer??
j/k .. i'm the designated project mangler for interactive (web) projects at a marketing company and am currently looking for similar positions in the denver area.
hook me up, and i'll be your belay slave for the day !
amber
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climbin_moo
Jan 29, 2003, 4:15 AM
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Im studing to be a physical therapist (Exercise movement science major). But I switched from CS and Im a chem minor... so I guess that puts me in with the nerdy.
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marcsv
Jan 29, 2003, 4:18 AM
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i'm a graphic/web designer.
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eclarke98
Jan 29, 2003, 4:33 AM
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Well I don't work with computers anymore, but I was a web designer while in college. However, two of the guys I climb with work in the computer industy, which I never really thought about until now.
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trebclimber
Jan 29, 2003, 5:17 AM
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I'm on my way to being a Nerd, I mean a Chemical Engineer.
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cruzinsouthoc
Jan 29, 2003, 5:17 AM
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This is an interesting thread...guess what, I'm a structural engineer. I thought I was a minority, but I guess not. I started climbing with an Air Force buddy but never really asked others that I've climbed with at the gym or those I meet up with at the crags, what they do. Maybe I should..
I also noticed a response about the registration exams to become a PE. I'm in the process now of getting my Civil PE. I took the exam for the first time in October and passed the Seismic, NCEES 8hr and the take-home Legal exam...BUT, I just missed the surveying portion...DAMNIT!!! I passed the EIT the first time around...it woulda been nice to get my PE on the first try (raise for getting my PE = more climbing gear!!)... if any of you are taking the exam in April, I'll see you at the Pomona Fairplex... At least for the Surveying portion of the exam...luckily, I don't have to suffer through the other 12hours of the exam ever again!!!
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tanner
Jan 29, 2003, 5:42 AM
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I a recreation Student my other main academic intrest is physical geography.
I have not intrest in math or problem solving in normal every day life. For some reason I like the problem solving aspect of climbing. Placing pro, running the rope and climbing its self is one giant puzzle. I find it mentaly and physicly challenging. Maybe the only reason it sticks in my short attention span is that its a life or death game.
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cruzinsouthoc
Jan 29, 2003, 5:44 AM
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Bigdrop,
just read your post. The "title" of engineer is used pretty lightly in the US I guess..however, you can't advertise or offer engineering services to the public legally without a license and you can't open an engineering business without a license either. You can do engineering design work and call yourself whatever you want, but a registered engineer must be in "responsible charge" of the final product.
I know there have been debates that you can't have the title engineer without a PE and also debates that you can't take the PE exam without an MS degree. Don't think those are going anywhere though.
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maculated
Jan 29, 2003, 5:56 AM
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Well, all the old schools guys were engineering majors from Berkeley, all of my climbing partners in college were . . . engineers.
But, MUWAHAHAHAH! I was an English major!
While all you little math whizzes are figuring out fall factors, I'm appreciating the world around me and what it means to be climbing.
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climbsomething
Jan 29, 2003, 6:17 AM
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Quote:
No, some of us are biostatisticians.
-Jay
GEEK!!!!!
I win! I am not a computer/techie/engineer nerdperson. I don't do a damn thing! But if I did, it's possible it would involve my sociology degree... but said degree has been in the making for 5 years, so I don't have much respect for it
In theory, I am also an English minor. I used to be a cub reporter, and was pretty good at it, but we all know writers practically live on canned cat food and kool-aid.
Nonetheless, score one for the social sciences and humanities.
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verticallaw
Jan 29, 2003, 6:24 AM
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ahhh law but I guess that wasn't surprising
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nalo
Jan 29, 2003, 6:31 AM
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Engineering student here, althou my partner studies human sciences.
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bertdehouck
Jan 29, 2003, 4:06 PM
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i sell organic an biological fertilizers !!!!
i studied chemistry
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palisades_rockjock
Jan 29, 2003, 4:21 PM
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inorganic chemist
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wildtrail
Jan 29, 2003, 4:44 PM
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I'm a writer. Before that I was in management running the warehouse for a plumbing wholesaler. Before that I was a mechanic.
Let's see... (in no particular order)
-Owned my own company (Custom Window treatments and Interior Design with my stepfather)
-Mechanic
-Management
-Lot's of odds n ends in industrial/factory settings
-Quality Assurance Supervisor for a die cast and plastic injection manufacturer
-Truck Driver
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climberpunk
Jan 29, 2003, 5:15 PM
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well, im only 15, but definately a hardcore geek-boy~!!! heh heh....oh and i wont even touch peecees..macs all the way!
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granite_grrl
Jan 29, 2003, 5:43 PM
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Will have the pinky ring soon, but it's still another semester and a half till I graduate.
Why arn't there that many climbers that are engineers?? Because there's not that many female engineers, electrical and mechanical especially (about 10% in the year I'm in), others a little more.
Do not misuse the work "Engineer" here in Canada, very strict. I could haul out some info from my Engineering Ethics and Law class, but I'm lazy.
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mreardon
Jan 29, 2003, 6:14 PM
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Law degree, but a writer/director/producer of movies and television now. Most of my climbing partners are construction and/or lawyers or in entertainment. Haven't met too many engineers. Most of them are working on aid projects
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saagax
Jan 29, 2003, 6:19 PM
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I want to be an helicopter pilot, but studied Computer Sciences and I'm working with computers all day long.
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sycamore
Jan 29, 2003, 6:23 PM
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With a degree in theater design, I swiftly moved into the glamorous job of--
-Bartender.
Although, only time will tell whether sycamore becomes either:
-the next Joseph Stella
-the white Timbaland
-. . . an architect. But a _cool_ architect! really!
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rabbitprobe
Jan 29, 2003, 6:31 PM
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Not all of us. I am relatively new to climbing, and in biotech research.
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