I'm just one more voice to the majority of comments against this proposal. I agree that engineers need to understand the best current information regarding their discipline. That's why we are licensed in the first place. Continuing Education is an uneccessary requirement for PEs. If we do not learn what is in the Codes and Regulations as they are revised, we cannot legally practice, because we will not be able to seal calculations or drawings knowing that they conform to the current body of knowledge.

Forced continuing education is a burden on society because the cost of the courses (both payment to the provider and loss of productive working time) will be passed on to the public ion the form of higher design fees, and society will get nothing from it, because we are already doing this. We will get CEUs/PDHs to meet the imposed requirements and still spend the time it takes to really know what we need to know to do our jobs and seal paper.

People who push for CE usually do have have enough to do, so think no one else does, either. They should work at their productive jobs more. Or have they been promoted out of doing real engineering and lost touch with it, so expect the rest of us to have equally little real work to do?