Ultra-Deepwater Drilling Would Gain From Licensed Engineers
Many times we’ve written that engineers should unite around causes such as the need for more spending on infrastructure and qualifications-based selection. When it comes to other matters, such as the importance of licensed practice and licensed engineering professors, we’re reminded that engineering is divided among numerous disciplines with their own needs and agendas. Engineering is sprawling and diverse, more like India than Switzerland. Engineers can never be as culturally coherent or politically unified as physicians, attorneys or architects.
But this state of affairs doesn’t mean engineering has split into so many loosely related camps that one sector has no effect on another. When one group of engineers trips up, should their peers in other disciplines make judgments about the problem?