Timing is Everything for Getting Your P.E.
Timing is Everything for Getting Your P.E.
When it comes to taking your PE exam, there’s no time like the present, especially for early career engineers with a couple of years of experience.
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Passing the Principles and Practice of Engineering exam is an important achievement—lending professional credibility, bumping up salaries, yielding more responsibility, and offering access to higher-level engineering jobs. But there’s a more practical piece to adding a P.E. after your name.
“It’s a license that says you’ve proven competence to legally perform engineering services to the public,” said Davy McDowell, P.E., chief operating officer at the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. Based in Greenville, S.C., the council that administers and scores the exam.
It also pays to have a P.E.—literally.
“It’s a license that says you’ve proven competence to legally perform engineering services to the public,” said Davy McDowell, P.E., chief operating officer at the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. Based in Greenville, S.C., the council that administers and scores the exam.
It also pays to have a P.E.—literally.