Engineers etc.

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From: Lindsay F. Marshall
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:02

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Several people recently have brought up the subject of the notion of
"Engineer". Whilst I am a member of the BCS and have CEng status, I
object VERY strongly indeed to being described as an Information
Engineer. This is a stupid meaningless title and is offensive to other
"proper" engineers - I am married to one and she thinks the whole
thingt is a farce. I am Computer Scientist. It says so on my degree
certificate (albeit in latin!!!). I am *not* an Engineer, never have
been and never will be. I do feel strongly about professionalism
however and that is why I have gone along with this nonsense.


I will not however start my rant about "software engineering" at this
juncture......

L.
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