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 |
I presently possess multiple state registrations, whereas a uniform standard of national registration would be preferable to me (such as the European model), that's another topic for another day. My experience with CEU credits is that it creates another profitable industry that feeds off governmental regulation serving a demand where no need previously existed. It routinely costs me thousands of dollars annually to fulfill this requirement which provides at best, marginal benefit to me. This flies in the face of all we hold sacred in a free market system when artificial 'needs' are created. My personal feeling and experience is that the profession itself does an effective job of policing itself. Incompetence is not sheltered or protected and eventually is rooted out in the form of dismissal of personnel or business failure of any organization that allows substandard professional practice. I have seen this and similar well intentioned programs become a bloated, unmanageable bureaucracy that takes on a life of its own. Specifically, my experience with the state of