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A plumber with enough experience can do engineer-y things, e.g. design an appropriate plumbing system for a house or renovation. Or a plumber can just be a guy
by throwawayboise 5y ago
A plumber with enough experience can do engineer-y things, e.g. design an appropriate plumbing system for a house or renovation.
Or a plumber can just be a guy following a plan and cutting and gluing pipes together.
- bumby 5y agoBut they cannot stamp a design, meaning it's not legal (depending on scope and permitting requirements). I can tell a person what ails them if they give me a list of symptoms but that shouldn't be conflated with me practicing medicine as a doctor. An HVAC technician can lay out a design for, say an operating room, but a licensed engineer is the only one who can stamp it saying it meets standards for ventilation. This where the fuzzy terms of "engineer-y" can get us into trouble. ~engineerish != engineer