> In Europe being an engineer has civil accountability on issues. You can be fined really high if you hire a self-called engineer without a proper degree. One

> In Europe being an engineer has civil accountability on issues. You can be fined really high if you hire a self-called engineer without a proper degree. One more case of mistakenly presenting 'Europe' as an homogenous entity, whereas it depends on countries like anywhere else. In France anyone can claim an engineer position, it is not licensed. You just cannot tell you hold an engineer degree if you haven't one; and that's pretty theoretical, because basically nobody uses the proper formal title (unlike for example in Germany where they always use the words Dipl. Ing.), so you can always fall back on claiming you are talking about the position and not the degree title.