You really only NEED a PE license for civil engineering. And even then, that's mostly to just have someone sign off on it. There are plenty of Junior Engineers who work in it without yet meeting the multiple years of experience necessary to get the license
Is it because construction is so demanding that the need for engineers is big and there is no time to train them (similar to the software industry), or this has been the case all the time?
I think that your comment just uncovered one of the key problems. The demand is so large that traditional Universities can't catch up with graduating software engineers.
You really only NEED a PE license for civil engineering. And even then, that's mostly to just have someone sign off on it. There are plenty of Junior Engineers who work in it without yet meeting the multiple years of experience necessary to get the license
Is it because construction is so demanding that the need for engineers is big and there is no time to train them (similar to the software industry), or this has been the case all the time?
I think that your comment just uncovered one of the key problems. The demand is so large that traditional Universities can't catch up with graduating software engineers.
No, it's that it's really only government projects that need the kind of sign off the licensure gives. Which is basically only civE projects.