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I am not aware of the US having any laws on who can call themselves Engineer or not - it's not like Canada. Having a printer and a sheet of business card blanks

I am not aware of the US having any laws on who can call themselves Engineer or not - it's not like Canada. Having a printer and a sheet of business card blanks entitles me to call myself an engineer.

avhon1 2y ago
It's legislated by individual states. A well-known example is Mats Järlström in Oregon, USA. https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-light-timing-lawsuit/ https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
- bee_rider 2y ago
  That press release seems to be specifically about their failure to get him to stop using the term “engineer,” and the fact that the legal system recognizes a difference between it and the more protected term “professional engineer.”
fsckboy 2y ago
> laws on who can call themselves Engineer or not - it's not like Canada It is like Canada in practice, depends on the terminolgoy they use. The two world's of "engineering" are so separated from each other, that's why I wrote a comment and that's why you are unaware of the distinction. You have skyscrapers in Canada, oui? If you want to change something structural on the facade (O, Canada, I mean façade) near the top of a skyscraper, like put in a balcony/observation deck, they are not going to let you do that till your plans are reviewed by a licensed engineer. Not any old engineer, only by somebody Licensed to review plans like that, who will take into account everything that needs to be taken into account, like crap falling on pedestrians walking below, 30 years from now when the concrete is starting to disintegrate. That is a licensed engineer. Canada has them. You don't know about them because you don't own a skyscraper. I know about them because I was on my condo board... in a skyscraper. they do structural, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, etc.

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I am not aware of the US having any laws on who can call themselves Engineer or not - it's not like Canada. Having a printer and a sheet of business card blanks

by pavel_lishin 2y ago

avhon1 2y ago
It's legislated by individual states. A well-known example is Mats Järlström in Oregon, USA. https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-light-timing-lawsuit/ https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
- bee_rider 2y ago
  That press release seems to be specifically about their failure to get him to stop using the term “engineer,” and the fact that the legal system recognizes a difference between it and the more protected term “professional engineer.”
fsckboy 2y ago
> laws on who can call themselves Engineer or not - it's not like Canada It is like Canada in practice, depends on the terminolgoy they use. The two world's of "engineering" are so separated from each other, that's why I wrote a comment and that's why you are unaware of the distinction. You have skyscrapers in Canada, oui? If you want to change something structural on the facade (O, Canada, I mean façade) near the top of a skyscraper, like put in a balcony/observation deck, they are not going to let you do that till your plans are reviewed by a licensed engineer. Not any old engineer, only by somebody Licensed to review plans like that, who will take into account everything that needs to be taken into account, like crap falling on pedestrians walking below, 30 years from now when the concrete is starting to disintegrate. That is a licensed engineer. Canada has them. You don't know about them because you don't own a skyscraper. I know about them because I was on my condo board... in a skyscraper. they do structural, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, etc.