I hope this myth would die. Most engineers don’t ever take a PE exam.
The PE exam is only needed for a handful of disciplines, like civil and HVAC engineering. Even then, you only need the PE certification if you are going to be signing legal documents. You can be a civil engineer without a PE working in a team producing designs and plans that are signed by a single certified PE.
By your logic almost no one that graduated from an engineering discipline would ever be able to call themselves engineer.
The PE exam is only needed for a handful of disciplines, like civil and HVAC engineering. Even then, you only need the PE certification if you are going to be signing legal documents. You can be a civil engineer without a PE working in a team producing designs and plans that are signed by a single certified PE.
By your logic almost no one that graduated from an engineering discipline would ever be able to call themselves engineer.