BLG923PE
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PA is apparently not setup to handle the processing and paperwork that is involved with engineering licensure. Therefore, PCS does all of the paperwork and acts as the state. Here is how I understand it from gathering what I have been told by a former coworker (which explains the big screwup last cycle).
Since there was the aforementioned screw up, before PCS can publish the result to your PCS page (#2), PA wants to verify that they entered everything correctly from NCEES. There is only one part of this process that just doesn't make sense...since NCEES has the OFFICIAL database, when they release results to the states, there is no reason PA has to wait until PCS is done doing their thing before telling NCEES to make the results available. No other states seem to operate this way.
So, for all intensive purposes, PCS is basically acting as the state if you want to compare apples to apples.
- NCEES sends results to PCS (not the state)
- PCS processes the results and prepares them for upload to the PA database (license lookup) and does all of the "paperwork" for issuance of licenses. At this same time, PCS publishes the result to your PCS page.
- PCS sends the database to PA for upload to the license lookup and tells NCEES to release results to your NCEES page
- PA uploads the database to the license lookup
Since there was the aforementioned screw up, before PCS can publish the result to your PCS page (#2), PA wants to verify that they entered everything correctly from NCEES. There is only one part of this process that just doesn't make sense...since NCEES has the OFFICIAL database, when they release results to the states, there is no reason PA has to wait until PCS is done doing their thing before telling NCEES to make the results available. No other states seem to operate this way.
So, for all intensive purposes, PCS is basically acting as the state if you want to compare apples to apples.
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