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I can't argue - it was a twenty year old memory and even the applicant
may have had it wrong.
Thanks,

Karl
Salmon Egg wrote:[color=blue]
> On 12/18/05 11:55 PM, in article
> [email]1134978921.228902.17330@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com[/email],
> "midlant@earthlink.net" <midlant@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > In California a company can give someone the title of "Engineer" for
> > use within that company.
> > To work as an engineer, even if you don't use that title, requires a
> > full degree or registration, a long proceedure that could be
> > "grandfathered" until somewhere in the 1980s.
> >
> > A friend of mine had to get his paperwork in by the end of the year,
> > but was running late.
> > We took a bunch of blank sheets to simulate the weight of the
> > application package, wrote his address on the envelope in pencil,
> > mailed it to get postmark, finished the paperwork on the New Years Day
> > weekend, erased his address from the envelope and put on the
> > application office address in ink, drove to Sacramento and slipped it
> > under the door.
> >
> > As it turned out, the references he used didn't like him and never sent
> > their paperwork in and he missed registaration.
> >
> > Karl
> >[/color]
> IIRC an engineering degree by itself was and is not good enough to call
> yourself an engineer in California. For a PE in the Electrical Engineering
> Branch or other main branches, you could not be grandfathered at that time.
> What I do remember was the creation of some new engineering disciplines at
> that time such as Control Engineer, Safety Engineer and the like for which
> you could be grandfathered in.
>
> Bill
>
> -- Ferme le Bush[/color]