FWIW, Don't do it. I'm in the same boat. PE with LSIT. If you sign with LSIT, it makes you look like an inexperienced PE. Most people (even fellow PEs) will not understand why you are a professional but you have this lowly surveyor attachment to your signature.
I have to respectfully disagree with you here. The LSIT designation is no lower than an EIT designation. Engineering and Surveying are two different fields. They are connected, but the skills from one do not entirely transfer to the other. Indicating that you have skill sets in both areas is not something that will make other PE's think you are inexperienced. It will simply show that you are at one level in one skill set and another level in a different skill set. It is also a clear implication that you are working toward professional status as a surveyor which means you are gaining additional experience that can be applied across two sides of the civil engineering industry. Why wouldn't you want to present your qualifications. If it is a matter of maintaining a degree of humility, that is far different than implying that one designation detracts from another one. I simply don't think that is the case. I think the designation offers benefit, and others see it as an additional level of credential indicating a stronger than average skill set with respect to our profession.
