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I am licensed in 10 states, all but one by comity. In addition to the NCEES record, Florida required an exam covering Florida laws and rules, and requires separate qualification for special inspections. I do not recall a specific state requirement in the others, but i do know that North Carolina requires ...

While a national license would be convenient, there are lots of local conditions that affect civil designs, things like soil conditions, topography, rivers versus estuaries, climate, travel patterns, vocabulary, local construction practices, not to mention local ordinances and codes. In over 50 years ...

Hey Jan, Navy had the same system for fitness reports, except that you could be rated top or bottom 1%, 5%, 10%, 25%, 50%. I think those were the categories. Of course, most raters with competent staffs rated everyone in the top category. So, there was also a requirement to rank each person against ...

Yes, there have been historic changes. Here in Hampton Roads, Virginia, sea level has risen by about a foot in the last hundred years. However, in Turkey the city of Ephesus, an active port 2000 years ago, is now about 10 miles from the Mediterranean Sea. So a single data point, which is the most obvious ...

I had understood that a Master's was becoming the entry level requirement in many cases. In my own case, I got my Master's while working, and in my opinion it had several critical assets. First, I had been out of the profession for several years in military service, during which time the CWA, SDWA, CERCLA, ...