>>>>regulated professionals are not expected to be perfect,
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>>Correct. My son and daughter-in-law are both PE's (Professional Engineers) and after graduating from engineering school have passed rigorous exams administered by groups of their peers under state supervision before being able to call themselves PE's.
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>Sounds rather self-important as a group and/or title. What were they between graduation and passing these exams, Amateur Engineers?
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>I'm not opposing the idea, mind you. There should be some degree of peer review and grading in each profession worth its salt. It's a tradition set by medieval guilds, and shouldn't be dismissed lightly.
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>It's the choice of words that sounds rather wrong to me.

Dragan, I agree. Certified Engineer might be more accurate.
I'll pass that along to the Professional Engineers in the family.