I have had my PE license for 38 years and have no problem with a serious attempt to insure professionals stay current.   The problem is in the willingness to invest in the leadership and day-to-day management necessary to do it correctly.

There needs to be a full-time pro-active professional (not administrative/secretarial) group that:

* Decides what training is acceptable - establishes standards

* Organizes training opportunities

* Rapidly pre-approves training proposed by members

* Maintains training records

and most importantly:

* Baselines the current information.  That is, you have no idea what I have been doing "education-wise" in the 38 years since you first issued me a license.   If you knew that, you might temper future requirements -- but I won't tell you if don't care and if you don't ask.

Unfortunately, this initiative has failure written all over it.  Here is what will probably happen:

* The requirement will be levied on Engineers who, as a group, are perceived as being old and out of touch.

* A near-sighted, retired, high school English teacher will be put in charge of continuing education for Engineers.

* The English teacher will come in to the opffice every saturday to see if those lazy engineers are doing what they are supposed to be doing and to "crack the whip" if they are not.

* the English teache will open a cookbook of self-approved buzzwords and copurse names in order to rule with the authority of an inter-galactic sovereign on whether the training qualifies, or is disallowed, based on the level of specificity of the course title.

Excuse the sarcasm, but I have met these people - they are out thee - they would love to have this job.

If your goal is to reduce the number of people with PE licenses, just ask people to turn them in, or stop issuing them.  If this is to be a serious effort, however, then please do it correctly with a significant investment of professional time and management effort and talent.