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

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From: tonywilk
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 00:00

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Damon Cali <dcali@mail.hst.nasa.govxx> wrote:

>Brian 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.

>Yikes! I better get some new business cards. Someone went and wrote
>"engineer" under my name.

Nah... just add:   "-ing consultant" to the end of "engineer" and
put your fees up by 30%. You'll never have to do any _real_ work again ;-)

Yours,
  Tony Wilk

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From: tonywilk@dial.pipex.com (tonywilk)
Subject: Re: who is the real "engineer"? ( was Re: who can be called "Dr."/"physician")
Date: 1997/08/12
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