COURT DELIVERS WONDERFUL SMACKDOWN ON STATE of OREGON COMMIES ''Oregon Engineer Mats Järlström Wins Traffic-Light Timing Lawsuit - ...After a two-year investigation, the board fined Mats $500 and said that he could not talk about traffic lights in public until he obtained a state-issued professional-engineer license. If Mats continued to "critique" traffic lights, he would face thousands of dollars in fines and up to one year in jail for the unlicensed practice of engineering. The board also said that Mats could not call himself an "engineer," even though he has a degree in electrical engineering and decades of engineering experience. Like most engineers in Oregon, Mats is not a state-licensed "professional engineer," and state law provided that only licensed professional engineers could legally use the title "engineer.""
