I am the Engineering Division Coordinator for all of the Engineering at VMI.  VMI Engineering has a requirement that all of the engineering faculty be a registered professional engineer.  For us to maintain the license the continuing education requirement will be a hardship for the faculty.  All have the PhD degree in additon to their license. We are highly educated and we must maintain currency within our discipline as part of our yearly evaluation.  I propose that engineering faculty be exempted from the continuing education requirement.  We require all of our undergraduates to take the FE exam and to pursue licensure.  I fear that the faculty at VMI will become like many of our universities and the faculty will forgo the license.  They will find that it is not needed to perform the research and other work that we accomplish.  For the faculty to all have the PE encourages the young undergraduates to take licensure seriously.