I own an Engineering Firm, Quanta Engineering. I do small scale Structural Engineering, but mostly focus on Mechanical Engineering, spanning multiple industries. I am currently a Mechanical PE.
I have sat for the SE. It was brutal. And I studied a lot. I will probably take it again.
I agree with that assessment. We have that limitation in Kansas explicitly in the statute. But, if you were to start working after 1 year into your Master's, I'm pretty confident, they would let you get credit for that 1st year of education as credit towards the 4 yr requirement.
It's ALWAYS the state who determines it. Every state has its own nuances. Overlapping work time periods generally won't count separately though.
Think of it like this: If I am working for a company 80 hrs/wk for 6 weeks, and someone else is working 40 hrs/wk for 1 company and 40hrs/wk on the...
First and foremost, you would be looking at licensing is a specific province, not the whole country.
It's kind of crazy to me how their PE process works. The PE process here in the US is much more stringent than what I've read in Ontario, for example.
A Canadian PE is almost guaranteed not to...
Do we have anyone on this site with experience getting licensed in Canada?
I have a customer who has sold some shelters I engineered to a customer in Ontario.
I'm considering a temporary license. I'm curious who has done this, and whether they thought getting a permanent license was worth it.
When it comes to editions, you should be able to find a list of what has changed from edition to edition. Using a previous edition is usually ok.
For example, in ASCE 7-16, the equation for calculating Design Ice Thickness changed from 7-10. In 7-10, the equations was 2.0*t*Ii*fz*(Kzt)^.35...