> The term engineer has undergone serious deflation over the years Sorry, but I don't buy that. The term 'engineer' has been around since the Renaissance. Lice

> The term engineer has undergone serious deflation over the years Sorry, but I don't buy that. The term 'engineer' has been around since the Renaissance. Licensed Professional Engineers have only been around since the 19th century. Nobody is suggesting that just anybody should be allowed to call themselves a Professional Engineer (or the equivalent in various jurisdictions). The attempt in Quebec and a few other places to outlaw most common uses of a word that has been in the English lexicon for 6 or 7 centuries is, frankly, insane.