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  1. Is the technical profession a career or a series of intermittent jobs and employers?
     
  2. Professors operate under the pressures of the 'publish or perish' syndrome.  Is this to the benefit of the university, the professional society, the professional or to society?
     
  3. State employment agency advertisements are placed with depressed salaries for technical professionals (from foreign nations).  Should this practice be stopped?
     
  4. Should technical professionals be supervised by non-technical professionals?
     
  5. The American Institute of Engineers Inc. has redefined the profession of technology to include engineers, scientists and mathematicians.  However, this change must be promulgated amongst peers.
     
  6. Still needing resolve is a second noun for the noun engineer.  This would then be similar to our brother professionals in medicine and law.
     
  7. Are we part of management?  An embarrassing question?
     
  8. Should the ethics of our profession bar the termination of colleagues?
     
  9. Are our peers aware of these unresolved issues?
     
  10. Why our profession did not have a logo until 1997, probably two hundred  years after it was formed?
     
  11. Why are state employment agencies promoting engineering openings for foreign nationals?   These occurrences go beyond shortage versus surplus arguments and into intellectual property thievery and law.
     
  12. Should our initial education contain mentorships, internships and residencies?
     
  13. Is a baccalaureate degree sufficient to begin practice?

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