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I respectfully disagree. My Master's degree helped me immensely to better understand the fundamental concepts necessary to do my job well. The company I worked for favored MS degree candidates. It wasn't seen as resume padding or marketing, but something that made us more qualified for some of the complex ...

If your motivation for a Master's degree is marketability, then I'm not sure that's a good reason to get a MS. Two more years of experience will probably provide similar marketability, which seems to be the message you are receiving from the senior engineers you have spoken with. But if your motivation ...

I would say that most of the work I did as a consultant was outside my state of licensure. But I was never the engineer of record signing documents, so there were never any issues. Ultimately, isn't it just the signator who assumes all the responsibility for the work being done? It still seems that if ...

I'm not sure what you would report. If they are registered in another state, they are still P.Es. They aren't the P.E. of record who signed the report, and the report made it clear that their registration was in another state. I would be surprised if this was considered any sort of ethical issue. ...

A couple of years ago a bill was introduced in Indiana that stated: "An individual who engages in an occupation under this chapter is not required by a state agency or local unit of government to comply with any experience, examination, education, or continuing education requirements or pay any registration ...