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 |
As the proposal sits it is not acceptable. There is no criteria for what is acceptable continuing education, only vague promises that the board intends to develop criteria. If I take a CAD class at the local community college, is it acceptable? Can the board come back 5 years after I take the class and tell me it has revoked my license because it feels the course was not relevant. "Course instructors must be competent in the subject being taught"....I wish that every instructor for every course I went to was competent. I have been to many that I thought were pretty poor. Can the board come back and rescind my license because they feel the instructor was not up to their criteria? Much of my engineering work is related to maintenance of machinery. Historically, teh board has not considered doing maintenance, real engineering. (I got news for you, a lot of us make our livings around maintenance work. Someone has to keep the stuff running.) If I take a Maintenance Reliability course, can they come back and revoke my license, years later?
The concept of education is good, but the devil is in the details and this proposal is written in a way that there is no clear definition and the board can come back later and screw your life up. I see no way of even appealing their decision.
Better not loose your records from that class you took, it could land you in the unemployment office.