In my opinion, the proposed continuing education will not improve the quality of engineering in the Commonwealth.  For this simple reason, I am opposed to Continuing Education.

Without repeating points of the 200 or so preceding comments that echo this position, it is clear to me that the public (those we serve) will not see an added benefit as a result of this proposed program.  When I see a former member of the APELSCIDLA Board come to a similar conclusion along with the overwhelming and logical objections in this virtual Town Hall to this concept, I wonder how such an Act to mandate CE made it through the General Assembly in 2006 in the first place.

Let us only hope that the bureaucrats and other unlicensed individuals who will now determine what we regulated, licensed professionals will have to do to maintain our licensure allow us the latitude to take whatever mandatory coursework proscribed as we, the regulants, see fit (where, when and how) and not as THEY (government, third-party companies, etc.) see fit.  Failure to consider the regulants' perspective on this can result in the program not just failing to improve the engineering industry, but actually damaging it.

Gregory J. Budnik, P.E., President, GJB Engineering Inc.