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What a complete disaster. Congrats, you have made the site unusable. The new and modern thread/subthread/subthread X Matrixed layout makes this a maze with no flow, no good visibility, and requires a complete remapping in order to rejoin. What a loss.

Closed book works for pilots in emergency situation testing: do you have the essentials committed to memory and can you instantly recall them under some stress. Engineering is a paced application of knowledge interwoven with creativity. Many examples only barely mimic real life situtions, but...

Test prep is technically a cheat. The purpose of the test is to demonstrate competency via application of knowledge and requisite efficiency in a block of time. If 70% of surgeons can excise the object and stitch the patient back up inside the allotted hands of the clock, then that becomes the...

That firm should not be written into State Codes. Period. That's number one. Number two: insurance ought to look into becoming an alternate path gatekeeper to engineering licensure. They're the ones insuring it; they should be able to properly assess the breakeven point for competency in the...

PMR06, Yes. See the second paragraph. Question was whether there are other companies in other industries or situations wherein the State mandates a private entity, by name and exclusivey, be used.

Are there companies that have their names written into State Codes such that the Code mandates their use by subscribers? Engineers have to go to a legislatively named company and make payment in order to progress in licensure. How is this ethical? Said another way, how is it that licensure is...

A standardized test, the pc format being the ultimate, should net passing results consistently in excess of the paper and pencil exams historically. There are fewer ways to depart from glideslope in a structured exam than in an unstructured one. Thus, two factors come into play that would...

AgMechEngr, Are you practicing in mechanical, or ag, or what kind of service? What kind of clients?

Not that bad. Debt-servicing cash flow. Boeing needs liquidity to keep the credit rating intact and be able to service near term debt while still operating under handicap. The layoffs and debt were baked in before the strike.

"Mandates". Ever see a mandate pinpoint an optimum (besides a trivial zero)? No, that's why commerce requires consent.

CEO put his word on the line. Union leadership/negotiating team 100% recommended accept offer. Blowing off leadership doesn't assuredly result in a better corporate outcome.

The MBAs didn't "pull" the health care. That was woven into the fabric before this all started.

Is your position that a generalist is de facto incompetent or that, like any sample slice of a professional segment, some may be?

Unless he lies to a binary inquiry on this score, you have nothing to stand on as an assessment tool. Binary inquiry would be, "Are you currently licensed to practice in XX state?" Answer would be "No." It also squares with his application. He has licenses. They probably hang on his wall...

How about: "Is your license current?"

CWB1, For reference/calibration, what's your perception of the current top 10% of US salaries, and what kinds of fields have historically (in your experience) dangled 50% bumps?

Why all the talk about jumping ship? How about taking control of your time and being matter of fact about it. Decide what "reasonable OT" is and then advise mgmt about it. When the weekly limit is reached, you are done for the week. Let them initiate any adversarial stance--not you. If they...

The union negotiating team and leadership both highly recommended acceptance of the contract. Everyone implored the union. The CEO is the real deal. He is no doubt an Option 2 exec.

Sure, whatever. Except, in this instance the CEO is new, has no history good or bad with the union, and gave them his public word as CEO--as opposed to the corporate bargaining team negotiating and keeping the public chatter quiet. So, that options are 1) this CEO doesn't know what he's doing...

Exec mgmt said this was the best offer the company could afford. If mgmt gives a better contract, then they are shown to have lied. If they were not at all bluffing, and the calcs show that the offer was best possible without harming the company at large, then the only solution remaining is...