I'd argue that it's really a distinction between an engineer, who should understand this stuff, and a technician, who doesn't need to to do a job. Certain segm

I'd argue that it's really a distinction between an engineer, who should understand this stuff, and a technician, who doesn't need to to do a job. Certain segments of our industry are currently engineer heavy, such as embedded, and some appear to be technician heavy. I don't see that as a problem per se but it clearly causes friction occasionally as we tend to conflate them.