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Agreed about the "engineer" label. My acquaintances at university were engineering students, and they would themselves correct me if I called them engineers -
by dandrews 14y ago
Agreed about the "engineer" label. My acquaintances at university were engineering students, and they would themselves correct me if I called them engineers - that requires licensure. (They're not even "engineers in training" until they've passed that monster FE.)
You betcha, PEs are justifiably proud of the title.
We have sysadmins around here who call themselves "Microsoft system engineers". It bugs me, but title inflation is a Dilbertesque fact of life.
- dev1n 14y agoThis is akin to a philosophy professor walking into a hospital and saying "I'm a doctor." The actuality; the professor is correct. The circumstances of the situation just make for misunderstanding and an apparent disrespect for the medical doctors walking around, from the perspective of the medical doctors. edit: changed the wording
- kilburn 14y agoThe fun fact about this story is that -at least in my country-, a lot of those so-called medical "doctors" actually are not doctors. They completed medical school and some specialty, but they never completed a research thesis.