He IS an engineer.
Perhaps not a “registered professional engineer”,
but so what.
He should counter-sue for the failure of the
stupid, pathetic, uneducated clowns on
the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering
and Land Surveying for not wearing
‘warning labels’.
Good comment.
Only a ‘Registered Professional Engineer” can advertise themselves as an “ENGINEER” to do work and charge for the work done. A PE is required to have the word “Engineer” or “Engineering” in a company name.
BUT - for someone to study traffic light patterns and file a report, attempt to persuade courts that there is a problem - and indicate that they have an Engineering Degree and therefore they claim to be an ‘engineer’....well - the Oregon Board should be fined and required to pay ALL legal costs and a penalty for being such jack-wagons.
Practicing law without a license! $5000 fine!
He is an undocumented engineer...
State laws regarding the professions are fairly explicit.
The timing and installations of traffic controls generally must first be approved by a license Traffic Engineer within the State.
Transportation and Traffic Engineering are explicit disciplines, whose sealed signed documents are required for properly designed highways, roads and intersections.
There likely is legal verbiage in state laws which require a Traffic Study prior to changing the traffic controls at intersections. Such studies are signed by professionals who typically are Civil Engineers and in some states have an additional Title License as Transportation or Traffic Engineer.
States also typically have regulations precluding the practice of engineering to those who have been licensed or registered by that State. That process is fairly rigorous and fairly well established throughout the US and internationally.
Prior to being fined, the person had been given a Notice of Intent, with a period of time for investigation, when he likely could have avoided a confrontation.
I would not recommend anybody represent themselves before a State Engineering Regulatory Board as an engineer, unless they met the qualifications they are entrusted to enforce.