The South Carolina Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors has decided not to pursue complaints against a newly-elected congressman for referring to himself using the term "ocean engineer" in his political campaign. The congressman's lawyer indicted that the term was used in a noncommercial manner as part of political speech. A similar issue has been ruled on in Oregon, with a judge ruling that "there is no fixed meaning to the title 'engineer'" and that "'engineer' has a generic meaning separate from 'professional engineer'."
February 20, 2019
