It is absolutely ridiculous to mandate professional engineers maintain continuing education.  No such requirement existed when I chose this education/career and it should not be required now.  I pay my dues both in time and money and do not want to be further dictated to by education elite justifing their existance at my expense.  I work long days to feed my family (did not plan education beyond my MS) and it is just another way to add more government control/regulation where it is not needed and additional cost and nuisance to the certification renewal process.  We will lose more renewal fees than we gain in so called "education".  Should we not be reducing government control and burden in our lives?

I spent  many years working to get my BS, MS, EIT, and PE (at night) and now a business of my own, a family of 5 and no free time.  I'm 48 years old and cannot imagine keeping up with some ill conceived continuing education requirement just to maintain my PE certification.  I chose this certification and line of work because I could achieve it with hard work and then go on with my life, working harder, without further, unnecessary education.

Chances are continuing education topics would be irrelevant for my line of work.  I would let my license lapse and would have therefore wasted years and thousands of dollars and effort it took to achieve this accomplishment.  WILL SOMEONE REIMBURSE ME FOR THAT???? 

The PE guidelines work very well with self evaluation and honor system with each professional engineer responsible for deciding if further education, and what type, is needed to effectively do the job.  It's our neck in the noose.  We're adults and can decide for ourselves.

Keep government and the "teach when you can't do" educators out of our business.....

Thanks for hearing these words.