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		evilduck on Aug 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok But most of them do have to pass the FE to work under the title of engineer. Simply graduating isn’t usually enough.

ghaff on Aug 12, 2022 [–]

I can assure you that in the US tons of working degreed engineers (and others) with engineer titles don't have PEs even if some state licensing boards whine about that fact from time to time.

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