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

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From: Harry H Conover
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 00:00

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Brian (byeag@umr.edu) wrote:
: EricJNK wrote:
: 
: >  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.
: 
: Look, if you do not have PE after your title, you are not a "real"
: engineer.  A BS alone in an engineering field does not qualify you to be
: an engineer.

This statement is surely just a TROLL.  (I'm sure you actually know
better, or, since posting from an edu domain, should.)

Qualifications in engineering are determined by education, experience,
and accomplishments.  Legal entitlement to market yourself as a Licensed
Professional Engineer and to sign-off engineering related to public
works or public safety is a statuatory issue and indeed requires the 
practitioner to hold a license. 

These are quite different things entirely, except for Architecture, 
Surveyers, Civil Engineering and certain limited areas of Electrical 
Engineering that work almost exclusively in the public sector.

Realize that MOST engineers don't work in the public sector, and
MOST don't require a license to practice their profession.  

                                          Harry C.

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From: conover@tiac.net (Harry H Conover)
Subject: Re: who is the real "engineer"? ( was Re: who can be called "Dr."/"physician")
Date: 1997/08/12
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