"Professional" Experience Definition 1

[swooneyWOODSTRUCT]

I am a little confused on what professional experience means in our profession. The broad definition of professional means "paid to do something" but we often use it to mean "working with a P.E. license".

On the ASCE Salary calculator, one of the criteria is "YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL/MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE". Is this referring to experience gained AFTER getting your P.E. or all experience after unpaid internships?

 

[SWComposites]

It likely means all experience after getting an engineering degree.

 

[1503-44]

All engineering in a professional capacity, not as a CADD operator, or survey rod man, as some examples.

--Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[phamENG]

I'm going to say the 'Managerial" is the key term here. How much time have spent managing other people? Is there another question about years of engineering experience?

 

[swooneyWOODSTRUCT]

phamENG, there is no other question about experience which led to my confusion.

 

[LittleInch]

Well its not the same as how many years have you been paid to do something.... The years spent bumming around waiting tables and generally doing more physical tasks won't get you very far.

So for me it means the years doing a design, manufacturing or construction role with the title of Engineer somewhere, whether that's junior, graduate, design or construction in front of it.

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[bimr]

The before experience is known as "qualifying experience". ASCE is referring to post PE license experience.

 

[swooneyWOODSTRUCT]

bimr, do you have a source for that? Out of the many replies I got on reddit and here you are the only one to say it means post PE.

 

[bimr]

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