Engineer In Training

About a month or so ago, John spent the whole day in Salem taking the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) exam to finally become an EIT (Engineer in Training). His boss had been bugging him to get it done for about two years, but John is a procrastination expert, so it was put off until I got the application for him and made him send it in. John said he felt really old at the test, as almost everyone was a recent college graduate or just about to graduate. He was getting pretty antsy to get the results of his test and yesterday, the letter came.

John is now a registered EIT (so now he's registered to do all the work he's been doing anyway for the past five years). So what does this mean? It means he gets new business cards with his new title, an increase in paid vacation time (WAHOO!), and another raise (DOUBLE WAHOO!). Plus, it means his boss is happy and that's what really matters, right?

We are very proud of John and now he just needs to figure out how long it will be before he can become a licensed mechanical engineer. Supposedly it's five years of experience, but we're not sure if that's just five years of experience (his five year anniversary with the company is on Sunday) or five years of experience WITH the EIT registration. We're hoping he won't have to wait another five years to take the final engineering exam, but I hear they can be sticklers with that kind of thing.

Way to go, honey!