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The article and the thread are horribly mixing at least three different things under the word Engineer. Actual Engineer degrees B. Eng., 'programmers' which I g
by carrolldunham 6y ago
The article and the thread are horribly mixing at least three different things under the word Engineer. Actual Engineer degrees B. Eng., 'programmers' which I guess could be B. Software Eng. and something called IT Engineer which I presume is a sort of two year network admin thing.
No wonder there's so much confusion about the value of things and people being surprised not to have the status they expected when the person telling you you need to be an engineer meant a substation designer and you thought it meant tech support.
- gentleman11 6y agoIn Canada, the term “engineer” is protected, but in most places the term is used loosely. Eg, in the USA, if you email Unity about a licensing question, you get a response from a “customer service engineer”
- Qu3tzal 6y agoWhich probably means an regular engineer assigned to customer service, I don't think it is means that customer service is viewed as an engineering discipline.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoOnly with regard to certain industries. I believe software engineer is pretty free-for-all. Just don't try and represent yourself as a P. Eng. Then you're in trouble.