Re: who is the real "engineer"? ( was Re: who can be called "Dr."/"physician")

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From: DD
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 00:00

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In article <5sdept$7js$1@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net>, EricJNK <ejnk@usa.net>
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> Yes, I sure can't understand how a salesman becomes "sales engineer".
>Why do we, real engineer, allow our title, "engineer",  to become so 
>cheap and degenerated to a BS joke? I guess that explain why the
>typical engineers are said to be a bunch of entroverts and nerds.
>
>Alan Fowler wrote in article <5sc57v$2r6$1@wombat.melbpc.org.au>...
>
>:"EricJNK" <ejnk@usa.net> wrote:
>:
>:> You know, I also have the same problem within my profession.
>:>We have all these people calling themselves engineer --
>:>sanitation engr.,software engr.,maintenance engr., financial engr.,
>:>Certified NetWare Engr. (CNE), Microsoft Certified Engr. (MSCE).,
>:>...etc. -- without completing a minimum BS degree in any engineering
>:>majors.
>:
>: Then there are Sales Engineers who got the title because they engineer
>:sales.
>:
>: Yours in jest, from a country that is riddled with non-engineer
>:engineers,
>: Alan.

DD-->Once upon a time the sales engineer was a very highly skilled man.
     Putting him on the road allowed a dispersal of know how and 
     generated sales. He was invariably middle aged.

     It would appear that this no longer applies from above.
>
>
>

-- 
Dan Druff

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From: DD <workerbee@yemonoc.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: who is the real "engineer"? ( was Re: who can be called "Dr."/"physician")
Date: 1997/08/10
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