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On 8/11/97 5:26PM, in message <5soair$qt0@news-central.tiac.net>, Harry H Conover 
<conover@tiac.net> wrote:

    > 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.
    > 
    > 
I am not a engineer, but I do the real work for many of them.  I guess it is like the statement 
that "a teacher is a person that cannot do, and a principle or administrator is a person that 
cannot teach.