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Technically you're not an engineer unless you're licensed and bonded and belong to a professional engineering society, or you drive a train, or have invented a
by ThrowOregonAway 1y ago
Technically you're not an engineer unless you're licensed and bonded and belong to a professional engineering society, or you drive a train, or have invented a unique engine. Period, end of discussion.
I know, I know. California changed their law so coders could puff themselves up and put on airs and make their resumes look more impressive. But this is a sad anomaly.
- crustycoder 1y agoI'm licensed by The Engineering Council in the UK for doing computery stuff, and by the relevant European body. I've been writing software for a living for most of my 40+ year career, and still do. So Chartered Software Engineers do exist. But perhaps not in CA.
- ThrowOregonAway 1y agoWe have no such thing in the US. There is no license for software "engineering" here, it's a made up term.
- gnabgib 1y agoThere is in Canada, licensed and bonded.
- rapatel0 1y agoAs someone with a PhD in electrical engineering, I care exactly zero percent about a paid for stamp from an org calling an me engineer or not.
- ThrowOregonAway 1y agoThis is why the planes are falling out of the sky now, this attitude of yours. As an eminent master and founder of the entire field of electrical engineering, I am much more qualified than you to have an opinion on this matter as well.
- rapatel0 1y agoThis is nonsense. Your credibility’s (and mine) come from the body of work and associated experience. Not a stamp from an org that costs x dollars per year. I would argue that planes are falling out of the sky because management types believed that getting somebody to take a test and get a stamp is sufficient to call somebody an engineer and delegate them critical work with irrespective of their work or experience.
- LtWorf 1y agoWell my country didn't change the law, so I still think it's very weird how every american is an engineer.