Action | Develop regulations for a mandatory continuing education requirement for architect, professional engineer, and land surveyor licenses. |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 5/2/2008 |
CE is something that is expected in other professional fields and is something we, as professionals, should be doing anyway. Furthermore, several states also have a continuing education requirement.
The financial cost is minimal. Most of the seminars I go to are either free or offered for a nominal fee through local professional societies. You don't have to go to the week-long conference at Disney World to meet the requirement. If this were a conversation among people who flip burgers for a living, I might have sympathy for the added cost of CE, but we represent a very well compensated profession. 20 bucks every couple months won't kill us and might actually help us be better engineers.
CE will help to ensure the quality of engineers in this state and prove that they are on level footing with other engineers in this country. It will only benefit the profession and I fully support it.