P.Eng.uin

[jroc_723]

I've been approved as a Professional Engineer in Alberta!

Teeeheehee!

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[purple_dwarf]

There's a pound of flesh I still have to spill in paperwork.

Congrats!

[jroc_723]

Yeah, it's a lot of annoying paperwork to rip through.

Did you do the NPPE yet?

[purple_dwarf]

Nope... What is it?

[jroc_723]

National Professional Practice Exam. (aka: The ethics exam)

The exam isn't too bad itself, although a lot of it is "choose the best answer" - and all of will be technically right... you just have to pick which one is most right.

It's even worse studying for. Really, really dry material. I studied half-assed for a week and then really friggin' hard for another week.

I passed... although I don't know my score. You only get your score if you failed. Weird, but... oh well.

[purple_dwarf]

Ah the old ethics exam. I have difficulty with those which I suppose is surprising give how much I spend reading ethics. (Not huge amounts but more than normal I think.)

For example I have difficulty understanding why it it ethically important to support the patent of the female condom, so that they can't be mass produced and distributed in say South Africa. Culturally it is really more of the girls job to procure/use the birth control.

[jroc_723]

You don't need to know the ethics behind the patents. Just the rules. :P

[jroc_723]

But then again, it's law. It's not supposed to make sense. :P