Many engineering programs don't push students to pursue PE's, but if you are entering a
role where it is required you will have the most success with the least pain getting your EIT immediately after college. Fast forward a couple years, your math and engineering skills get foggy and taking the exams is much harder.
The broader concern I have is areas of operation. There is a need for entertainment industry knowledgeable Professional Engineers, but our industry is such that people are commonly touring or moving around. Once you get your PE, you have very little flexibility to move around. In cases where the individual stays put but their engineered solutions go on tour, there are often state-specific rules delineating where a PE stamp is required for permanent structures vs structures assembled on-site, and not all states are consistent on what they require.
For context, my firm has offices in 4 states but to operate in all 50 we have a company wide database of 400 employees. If we are invited to join a project in Wyoming, we need to use PE's licensed in WY to be our Engineers of Records on those projects. Typically a structural PE, a mechanical PE, and an electrical PE. If we do not have someone on staff who fits that bill, we need to partner with local PE's who will bear that responsibility. Mind you, we are in the construction business not the entertainment business -- but that is how PE's navigate the various state rules.
From a
practical standpoint, I don't expect these are insurmountable issues but if you are developing an engineering program for this industry then I would expect UNLV to represent those complexities to their prospective students as they decide whether to invest a lot of money to pursue a career path that may have some obstacles associated with it. I would also expect someone is engaging with your state engineering board on how to direct focus of this curriculum appropriately, either with the
express intent that this can become PE
track, or that it has no intention to be a PE
track. Anything wishy washy in between seems like a disservice to students who are investing in educations that may or may not be preparing them for what they're expecting.