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This is all ridiculously country- and culture- specific. For example many places in Europe have adopted what I think is originally a German idea that anything v
by ivoras 8y ago
This is all ridiculously country- and culture- specific. For example many places in Europe have adopted what I think is originally a German idea that anything vaguely technical, if done professionally, is engineering. So you have "engineers of chemistry" which is kind of reasonable but also "engineers of mathematics" which seems odd.
Here, you can call yourself whatever you like but if the company hiring you requires diplomas or certificates, then you either have them or don't. Because of that, nobody makes a fuss about it.
- rm445 8y ago'Engineer of mathematics' and the like make sense given that academia has been fairly effective in making society believe 'science' means scientific research, rather than all of the scientific pursuits including engineering and manufacturing. (Talking about language here, not state regulation of professions). There are employees at the company I work with great job titles like 'mathematician' and 'physicist'. But if the physicist is applying known principles (obscure ones about photon behaviour, but well-understood principles) to product development rather than blue-sky R&D, what is their actual job? - Given many people would think a physicist is a researcher. There's an argument that the job in question is actually 'physics engineer'.
- ip26 8y agoIs an "engineer of chemistry" a chemist by another name? In the US a "chemical engineer" is an engineer who specializes in the industrial use or production of chemicals. Think, the guy who designs the factory to manufacture a certain chemical. But "engineer of chemistry" doesn't sound like the same thing.