History and relationships of US organizations that support the PE system

6. History and relationships of US organizations that support the PE system

The official origin of the US PE system was the PE license certification in Wyoming in 1907, but Western society has long had the ground to position Engineers as specialists or professions indispensable for the development and survival of society.

In the United States, field-specific engineer associations such as ASCE (Civil Engineers Association) and ASME (Mechanical Engineers Association) were voluntarily established around 1907, which dates back more than half a century from 1850. It is said that the foundation for gaining the trust of the public as a profession was cultivated over time, such as having a great effect on reducing the number of people. (Reference: Introduction to Ethics of Engineers, Third Edition, Sugimoto and Takashiro, 2005 Chapter 15, etc.)

Table XNUMX gives an overview of the history of the US engineer system since the Edo period in Japan, and presents not only the state government, which is a public institution, but also various non-governmental institutions, which interact with each other in multiple layers. It shows that it has shaped the US PE system.

Table XNUMX History of the development of the US engineer system

Years	Events related to the US engineer system	Social Situation in the United States
1852	Established ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)	1861-65 Civil War
1862	Morrill Land Grant Act enacted – more state universities since then
1873	Established AIME (American Mining Engineers Association)
1880	Established ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)	1890 Sherman Act (Antitrust Act) Enacted
1884	Established IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
1907	PE law passed in Wyoming	1914-18 World War I 1917 Russian Revolution 1929 Great Depression
1908	Established AIChE (American Association of Chemical Engineers)
1920	NCEES Established – Initially 7 State PE Boards Participate
1932	NCEES publishes Model Law	Around 1933-38 New Deal Policy
1932	ECPD (Professional Engineer Development Council) established – NCEES, ASCE, ASME, IEEE and others participated)
1934	NSPE Established-Initially Four State PE Associations Participate	1939-45 World War II
1935	NSPE publishes Code of Ethics
Around 1940	FE system begins in New York
1946	NSPE publishes Canon of Ethics
1950	PE law passed in all US states
1965-66	NCEES begins offering FE and PE exams	1969 Apollo 11 moon landing 1970s Consumer-focused movement
Around 1976	Iowa introduces CPD filing system for PE license renewal
1976	The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Antimonopoly Act in the NSPE Canon of Ethics, which states that "price competitive bidding for engineering business is prohibited." After four years of court battle, NSPE settled the clause by amending it
1981	NSPE publishes Code of Ethics – 2007 revision is current
1984	All U.S. States Adopt NCEES PE Exams
1980	ECPD renamed ABET (National Council for Engineering Education Certification)
1989	Washington Accord from the US, UK and Australia comes into effect ABET participates in the US	1991 Soviet Union collapse 1995 World Trade Organization (WTO) established
1994	Oregon PE Board Starts FE and PE Exams in Japan
1996	NCEES FE exam by field
1997	ABET publishes Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000)
2000-01	Established JSPE (Japan Professional Engineers Association). Conclude a collaboration agreement with NSPE	2001 XNUMX/XNUMX terrorist attacks in the United States
2002	NCEES PE exam is all-choice
2005	Japan (JABEE) joins Washington Accord
2006	FE test and PE test implementation body in Japan shifts from Oregon to NCEES
2014	NCEES FE Exam Becomes Computer Exam (CBT)

(Reference: NCEES History, NSPE History, ABET History, JSPE 10-year history)

Figure XNUMX shows an image of the relationships between organizations applied to the life cycle of individual engineers.