Is it true if your engineering degreeing isn't ABET accredited then it is worthless.

[rheidzan]

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Of course those low-cost firms will have people that will work there. Do you think that everybody with an engineering degree will be get hired by those A+ firms? Of course not. There will always be those at the bottom, and they will end up working for companies at the bottom. That’s not going to change. That’s not what I consider to be the problem.

Nor do I. I never meant to imply that we need to eliminate all the mediocre firms. Heck, like you said, somebody need to employ the mediocre workers.</p>

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The problem is that clients are willing to hire those low-cost firms and won’t put a premium on the quality of the product. We have to change the mindset of those with the money.

You got it.

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<p>I think we’d at least lower the number of mediocre workers by upping the requirements for PE, don’t you think?</p>

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All you’re going to get if you only do that is more crumbling infrastructure, more collapses, and more deaths because there will be fewer engineers around to do the jobs. What we have to do is MARKET ourselves better to both private clients and to the general public as a whole. I

What better way to make the general public notice and appreciate? What better way to market ourselves?</p>

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If you have fewer PE’s, firms will just try to force the remaining PE’s to take on extra work with the same pay since the company isn’t getting any extra revenue.

If you have fewer PE’s, you’d have less commodity. That is since engineering is already seen as a commodity anyway.</p>