Originally Posted by
wlaxer
In the US, there are plenty of legitimate engineers without licenses. The PE is generally only a requirement in civil engineering, other industries have other safeguards. Unfortunately, there's a lot of abuse of the term too.
All legitimate engineers without a PE have to have a licensed PE sign off on their work when it has potential public impact.
A friend of mine works as a process engineer for a gold mine out in Nevada. He does not have a PE license. All of his design and analysis regarding the environmental impact of one their mines had to be signed off by a licensed PE before the EPA would accept it.