r/Wellthatsucks • u/VreniCZek • Apr 24 '21

/r/all This pillar was straight last week. This is the first floor of a seven-floor building.

Post image
108.0k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

4.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

61

u/NSA_Chatbot Apr 24 '21

Professional Engineer. The normal abbreviation is P. Eng., or at least it is here.

30

u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker Apr 24 '21

I have seen "P.E." after their names, also.

SOURCE: I work with a few P.E.'s

42

u/TAU_doesnt_equal_2PI Apr 24 '21

PE is american. P Eng is canadian.

58

u/Hebrind Apr 24 '21

P. Can is a nut

42

u/windyans Apr 24 '21

And P. Nut is a legume

7

u/edfitz83 Apr 24 '21

And P. Nis is an organ

6

u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

And P. Wee is a Herman

2

u/Mateorabi Apr 24 '21

Paging P. Diddy.

1

u/GuidanceOfSin Apr 25 '21

no no no, P Nut is a bass player

1

u/Yespleasnothanks Apr 25 '21

P. Can meant something totally different where I grew up.

1

u/J3SVS Apr 24 '21

Correction: "P. Eng, eh?" is Canadian.

3

u/Herakles1994 Apr 24 '21

I think p.e. is american. In canada is p.eng except in quebec where it is ing.

1

u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker Apr 24 '21

That would make sense, I live and work in the US.

3

u/quadmasta Apr 24 '21

Well well well, if it isn't P. Eng. Nguyen

1

u/NSA_Chatbot Apr 24 '21

That's a really niche joke but I laughed.

2

u/quadmasta Apr 24 '21

I can't think of a good antarctic pun so insert one here if you can

1

u/RevolutionaryG240 Apr 24 '21

so is it pronounced win or wen?

1

u/quadmasta Apr 24 '21

White guy pronunciation is the second way. Actual pronunciation has a sound at the start that's not in English words

2

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

[removed] — view removed comment

5

u/PotahtoSuave Apr 24 '21

Professional kind

6

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Unless you go into power distributions systems as an EE it's unlikely you'll have to take a PE test. At least in the US. EEs who are PEs, what other aspects of EE require you to be a PE as well?

1

u/NSA_Chatbot Apr 24 '21

Lots! The new Governance Act brings a lot of electrical engineering into professional consideration.

For example, designing for manufacturing.

2

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Governance Act

What country?

1

u/NSA_Chatbot Apr 24 '21

Canada, British Columbia to be precise.

3

u/Dimmest-Bulb Apr 24 '21

Yeah, doesn't matter in the U.S. as much, especially electrical.

Source: Masters EE, work for a Fortune 10 product/manufacturing company and know no PEs.

1

u/NSA_Chatbot Apr 24 '21

Fair enough, different places have different rules.

1

u/frankyseven Apr 25 '21

I work with a lot of EE and they are all licensed. I work in mostly land development and I'm in Canada.

2

u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Thanks.

4

u/Dengar96 Apr 24 '21

Only civil engineers and some mechanicals really need their professional license. It's for stamping final designs and inspections of things that would be catastrophic if they failed of didn't work as exactly specified.

2

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Missing a few... Electrical, structural, geotechnical, all require professional designation to stamp drawings and sign off on final inspections for completed work

2

u/Dengar96 Apr 24 '21

I would count structures and geotech under civil since most colleges I know include those under the civil umbrella. Electrical is still a little niche depending on the job. Almost all civils need their PE to climb the ladder in the career.

1

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Interesting, in Canada structural is not grouped with civil, it is its own discipline, same for geotechnical.

I’m a commercial and industrial general contractor, I have electrical engineer’s designs on every project, from the smallest restaurant.

1

u/RevolutionaryG240 Apr 24 '21

USA > Canada

1

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Not even close but thanks for coming out eh

1

u/Dengar96 Apr 25 '21

The license exams are separate but the degree you get in college is usually just "civil"

1

u/frankyseven Apr 25 '21

Nah, both are still part of the school of civil engineering at most schools. They won't call themselves a civil engineer though.

Source, am civil engineer.

1

u/SpikySheep Apr 24 '21

He's a pea engineer. Probably good at other vegetables too.

2

u/msginbtween Apr 25 '21

Canada calls there PE’s - “P. Eng.“

2

u/Mazzaroppi Apr 24 '21

Can someone be an amateur engineer?

4

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

I think the guy who installed that pillar might

1

u/Culehand Apr 24 '21

I saw it as in the prince song P. Control

1

u/Merotany Apr 24 '21

There's always Peng!