My fiance' will be graduating college in December wih a degree in Architectural Engineering. He would like to earn his Professional Engineering license, and would have to work under a professional engineer for 5 years. The problem is that he wants to go into construction management, and he feels that he won;t be able to find a company that will have what he needs to eanr his P/E so he may have to work in another field for 5 years just to earn it. Is this true? Or are there construction companies (residential or commercial mainly, but industrial if all else fails) that have professional engineers on staff? Especially in the Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC area?
Please, serious answers only by those who know what I am talking about.
2007-08-28 07:44:36 · 6 answers · asked by pixie_vixen117 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
I know how he gets the PE, but was wondering if construction firms would have PE's on staff for him to work under?
2007-08-28 08:59:18 · update #1
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2016-11-12 05:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chances are they would have a PE on staff in the company in the construction industry. Our construction division had it's own PE's.
Also, your husband will not have to work directly under one PE for his four years before taking the exam. All he needs is for the/a PE to be aware that he is working in the engineering group that the/a PE has responsibility for. When your husband fills out his application he then uses that PE, or all the PE's that he has worked under, as the persons under whose direction he worked, even tho that person never really supervised any of his work in detail. That is known as delegation of authority. He is going to need three PE's to recommend him on his application anyway, so the more the merrier.
He will just have to make sure that he keeps tract of the ones he is going to need a recommendation from, so that he can contact them when he needs to.
2007-08-28 13:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by gatorbait 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usually you need to work under another Professional Engineer who can document your work. If he can find a construction company where he can do this he's set. Probably he will have to find an Architect to work under for awhile in a Design/Build architecture firm.
2007-08-28 08:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by Mee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have worked in construction management for 10 years. I am a P.E. and many of my associates in the field are also P.E. Many trades are represented (civil, electrical, mechanical) in CM. As long as the firm he goes to is large enough, there is almost certain to be a P.E. on staff.
2007-08-28 09:38:43 · answer #4 · answered by trent 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life." - Theodore Roosevelt Engineering is hard. It is stressful. There are long hours, even all nighters. Generally the pay sucks. But there is ABSOLUTELY no feeling in the world like creating something that didn't exist before. If you like engineering and what we do, then it is definitely worth going into.
2016-05-20 02:04:09 · answer #5 · answered by viola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would depend on what company he worked for. Some do and some don't, so if this is his desire, he would want to ask this question during his interview with prospective companies.
2007-08-28 13:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋