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It happens daily in the US. Licensing boards arent technical regulators. They have very little ability to investigate any engineering activity before they're overstepping their legal authority, outside their competence, and/or stepping on technical regulators' toes. They dont have large...

Frankly, your posted background looks pretty weak, doesnt show the necessary experience to hold a PE, and you're proposing a wide variety of work outside your competence that would need several decades of experience. I prob wouldnt hire you as an employee, nvm sign a design contract. I highly...

Unless you're ethically challenged, engineering quality isnt arbitrary or negotiable. Its a logical process, no judgement needed. You design to the customer spec, no more or less without approval, and FMEA drives everything from design details and safety factors to testing. You prove when the...

They're not the most likely cause but CNC malfunctions do happen regularly in any large shop/plant, and in small shops with older equipment. Many older stepper drives are open-loop so a bit of wear or dirt will cause a skipped step. Likewise, newer controls are often Windows-based and have...

Its not subjective. A survey will be done of larger companies' job descriptions, training programs/requirements, and career ladders to establish industry norms for the role in question, and the engineer's training and experience will be compared to those facts. A given role's duties, training...

I dont understand the concern. The public can already purchase and use/misuse engineering tools. Regulators are already exist as a safeguard to ensure minimum, safe quality. Ethical engineering already requires that human-factors be eliminated via process and testing. Proven design is proven...

Is there a reason you're lapping and not grinding?

IME both seated torque and thread protrusion are used for the same thing - to let the assembly folks know when all contact surfaces are fully seating against each other. If you're assembling halves of a gearbox and using fasteners to seat interference-fit bearings without smart tools, you want...

I will gladly assist anybody that needs help, but I refuse to approve moron notes on design prints or otherwise baby so-called "professionals" responsible for $$thousands-millions. If your print callouts allows everything from a sharp edge to radius then no note is needed. This is like the...

Occupational codes tie competence to professional norms. Regulators and courts dont dictate those norms (nor want to), they just compare the facts of your history to professional norms to establish/challenge competency. If you completed a standard 3-5 year training period in a focused niche...

Both varieties certainly exist in every profession and role. Incompetent** generalists can thrive at large companies where process/policy requires their work to be reviewed and approved by niche specialists. At sole-proprietorships they dont have that luxury, the generalist needs to intimately...

Yes.

ChorasDen, the norm for training and career development programs is three years per niche/role, which goes back in quality management IIRC to Taylor. Licensing stateside generally requires four years total experience and a senior attesting that you are competent in at least one niche, which...

No, licensing and competence are two different considerations. Competence in at least one niche is a requirement for licensing, not the other way around. You can be competent but not licensed and vice-versa. To be considered competent in a given niche, you need to have specialized in it for...

Ask the hiring panel, theirs are the only opinions that matter.

Median top 10% of all US engineering disciplines on bls.gov was ~$150k last year. The various societies' salary surveys IME tend to be a bit higher but I rarely read pubs outside ASME or SAE and consider them anecdotally. The reason the offered increases were large is my having to relocate...

Sounds like a crap employer. My standard response to those issues stateside is to treat it like an engineering problem. 1. Read relevant literature. Read the professional societies' salary surveys (assuming Oz has them). Search the web to find salaries at famous employers, and understand...

I'd be curious to hear an IP attorney's take on that. Contracts do not grant IP rights nor can they be used to force the necessary release for most business/corporate customers. Most businesses today have an overarching supplier agreement which goes into effect automatically upon your initial...

Tempting as it is, I'll refrain from posting the "Old man yells at cloud" meme. Various levels of generative design have been common for 20+ years in everything from home to vehicle design. CAD packages can convert from 3d solids to dimensioned 2d prints, or in the case of architectural...

That seems like a great way to alienate customers if not get sued. You're already charging the customer to create the 2d & 3d, charging them a second time could easily be argued as double-billing. I dont doubt that detached residential customers wouldnt notice the extra charge but industrial...