Talk:Architectural engineer (PE)
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Picking up on the unresolved discussion of Architectural engineering before its restructuring:
- Does someone trained in AE have the right to obtain a licence in MEP or structural simply by virtue of an AE exam? I understand some states have an AE licence... what does that licence entitle them to do? certainly not architecture, MEP or structural?? If so, how is this possible??? The article does not clarify this and conveniently "skirts" the issue.
- ALL university info I have come across focusses on the discipline and is generally vague on future licensing... and where it is less so, it alludes to the need for "specializations" in one of the traditional groups if one is to practice as an engineer or architect. To me this means a broadly trained mechanical engineer (or structural, etc.- whatever)- not a generalist architectural engineer that does it all. Again, keep in mind this is academic- practice is a very different thing.
- point to any legislation, statute, act- or whatever it is that governs professional practice in your part of the world- that governs the requirement for architectural engineers on any project. This exists for structural, civil, architects, etc., but I've never come across anything for AEs.
I simply would like to know what the AE is entitled to do by law (without a license in Struct, etc.- just with the AE license), NOT what he/she studied in school. Please don't tell me "everything"... this cannot be true!! Mariokempes (talk) 00:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
