Great information there. I know the requirements for licensure in many states have changed considerably over the years. In my state, it’s very difficult to have your application for the exams accepted without a degree at an accredited school.
I shouldn’t wonder that that is now the case (but of course I was writing about the past, the discussion having started with a comment about engineering education circa 1910). A friend of mine decided to go for his PE, but he had graduated from a school which wasn’t accredited, so he had to go the “experience” route in order to even start the application process. I think that would have been about 1990 or so . . . my, how time flies! I haven’t done a lick of engineering in this century!Wikipedia says that MIT was founded during the 1860s, but my recollection from the book I cited is that the actual engineering curriculum there came later - more in the era of the founding of my school, Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University) in the 1890s, as I recall. IIRC it was founded independently of MIT and later incorporated into it - something like that.
The “infinite” corridor in the title of that book refers to a corridor in a building at MIT which only seems infinite.