▲ 576 ▼ Federal court decides in favor of retired engineer told by state to not talk about math in public (www.wect.com) submitted 2 years ago by flumph@programming.dev to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 75 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Just read the opinion. He was allowed to practice engineering under an exception and never joined the org. Then he started critiquing work, and opposing council tried to negate his analysis by saying, hey you can't practice engineering. So the title isn't that protected, but various people tried to make it seem like it would be, and a greater court decided that infringes his rights. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] healthetank@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) You're looking at the original article. This whole series of comments has been spawned off a discussion about a different case, in which the person did join the organization, then let his license lapse. In the original, I agree. He never required a license because of their own regs( though it appears that also means he couldn't call himself a professional engineer, so the title itself is protected, he was just exempt from needing the license to do the industrial work he was doing). He is then totally within his rights to use that knowledge and pass himself off as a subject matter expert in the same field he worked for X years, and the board just got pissy. Glad it was overturned for him. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago My mistake, I was checking if he actually used it in the context of practicing engineering, and he didn't there was a biography on his blog and some other slide. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] healthetank@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) You're looking at the original article. This whole series of comments has been spawned off a discussion about a different case, in which the person did join the organization, then let his license lapse. In the original, I agree. He never required a license because of their own regs( though it appears that also means he couldn't call himself a professional engineer, so the title itself is protected, he was just exempt from needing the license to do the industrial work he was doing). He is then totally within his rights to use that knowledge and pass himself off as a subject matter expert in the same field he worked for X years, and the board just got pissy. Glad it was overturned for him. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago My mistake, I was checking if he actually used it in the context of practicing engineering, and he didn't there was a biography on his blog and some other slide. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago My mistake, I was checking if he actually used it in the context of practicing engineering, and he didn't there was a biography on his blog and some other slide. permalink fedilink source parent