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Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice
Pages 37-39

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... The implementation of this effort should occur through establishing appropriate curricula in the formal education experience, appropriate recognition and compensation in the workplace, and congruent standards for licensure. ISSUE The practice of civil engineering at the professional level means practice as a licensed professional engineer.
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... · Civil infrastructure systems within the United States are rapidly changing from decades of development and operation to the renewal, maintenance, and improvement of these systems. These changes have created a market requiring civil engineers to have simultaneously greater breadth of capability and specialized technical competence than that required of previous generations.
From page 39...
... 100 years ago, and, whereas medicine and law education lengthened with the growing demands of their respective professions, engineering education did not. Perhaps this retention of a 4-year undergraduate engineering education has contributed to the lowered esteem of engineering in the eyes of society, and the commensurate decline in compensation of engineers relative to medical doctors and lawyers.


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