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My computer science degree (from www.epfl.ch) comes with an official (as in, legally protected [0]) engineer title. Not all people, institutions, countries mak
by davidgay 8y ago
My computer science degree (from www.epfl.ch) comes with an official (as in, legally protected [0]) engineer title.
Not all people, institutions, countries make the same distinction between "real engineering" topics and other topics that you seem to be assuming.
[0]: in Switzerland, it's the specific claim to have an engineering degree from the EPFL that is protected. https://bachelor.epfl.ch/structure-etudes https://bachelor.epfl.ch/structure-etudes (in French) also mentions that France - where "engineer" is a protected title - officially recognises EPFL graduates as engineers...
- ghaff 8y agoThere is a Professional Engineer exam for software engineering in the US but it's going away because almost no one sits for it. Getting a PE is by no means universal for other engineering branches in the US either. It's most common in industries where you deal with regulators and have to sign off on plans, drawings, etc. for those regulators. When I worked as a mechanical engineer for oil rig design and other work, I took an engineer-in-training exam and would have gotten a PE after working for the requisite number of years.