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Kingston,Mi | I am not an engineer but played one for the better part of 28 years. Civil engineering as preformed by NRCS in Michigan is a series of professionally trained engineers and engineering technicians (most of our education consisted of on the job training and a few several week training classes and specialized design procedures). The state conservation engineer was the ultimate and only authority as everyone who worked under him whether they had a degree or not was granted engineering authority to sign plans, yearly we would have a review of recent designs and then your authority was raised or remained the same. The area engineer I worked under had passed his exams and had his certification but still worked with under the authority granted by the state conservation engineer. As Steve used to famously say "anyone can design a nuclear power plant, only certain people can okay the designs".
Nearly all designs required someone with similar authority to review the plans before the designer could sign them (if within their limits) or have someone with more authority sign the plans.
The Michigan Department Of Agriculture follows a similar scheme and at one time had a former dairy farmer who had an engineering degree working for them in the Upper Peninsula as a district engineer.
Locally, our school district lost the robotics instructor who has taken a job with a regional civil engineering firm even though he doesn't have an engineering degree but plans on working to fulfill the needed background classes. | |
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Engineering career?
