Meh on the degree. I've known quite a few people without degrees who can engineer rings around folks with those pieces of paper.
If there needs to be a test, make it like the Bar; you don't have to attend law school to pass (though it helps a lot!). Actually measure the thing being controlled or categorized.
[Licensing comes up every once in a while. The last time I looked at one of the licensing programs for software, it was about fifty percent EE. Really not sure what impedance and amplifier design have to do with writing software. Frankly, it looked like a politically motivated power grab by some folks who wanted to gatekeep the market. "Nice career you have there, bub; it 'ud be a mighty shame if something . . . happened to it, right?"].
If there needs to be a test, make it like the Bar; you don't have to attend law school to pass (though it helps a lot!). Actually measure the thing being controlled or categorized.
[Licensing comes up every once in a while. The last time I looked at one of the licensing programs for software, it was about fifty percent EE. Really not sure what impedance and amplifier design have to do with writing software. Frankly, it looked like a politically motivated power grab by some folks who wanted to gatekeep the market. "Nice career you have there, bub; it 'ud be a mighty shame if something . . . happened to it, right?"].