JNLJ said:
IL is legendary in this regard.
Yuppers. My Illinois story:
1) No interest in my M.Sc from Marquette. Back to the ABET thing.
2) Said my no-name Canadian B.Eng was worthless because the courses didn't have enough hours. Got this straightened eventually as we just report hours differently in Canada.
3) Eventually
did accept my no-name Canadian B.Eng. Again with the ABET. According to some accord, CBET = ABET. And IL WILL follow their own rules without fuss.
4) Zero credit for the first two years of my B.Eng because that was really a three year tech school thing. Fair enough.
5) I've written,and received, a lot of letters from IL. Not a group that responds, in any way, to applied persuasion. They do it their way, at their pace.
6) I got it done but it was nearly a four year thing start to finish.
7) One year when I was dealing with some time consuming health stuff, I accidentally let my IL expire. I won't ever,
ever do that again even if I'm concurrently dying of pancreatic cancer and tied up in some cave in Afghanistan. Full on audits on my CE etc and threats to have me do it again from scratch.
Frustrating as it's been, I do applaud their efforts to protect structural's little monopoly in IL. I've made some easy money designing scraps of metal stuck to the sides of cell phone towers just because my clients didn't have an SE in house and couldn't find one externally willing to demean themselves by doing such unglamorous work. Fortunately, KootK likes money. And needs to make up some serious ROI on his IL license.