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If only there was a professional kind of designation that would separate the engineers by profession from just engineers by function.
They should call it a professional engineer. And have a ring or something to show they’re special. They need to show they’ve done the actual engineering work and the thesis to boot.
They do, you say?
So they DO distinguish already between Professional Engineers and engineers. So it’s just a matter of him not paying dues? Like a cheesy license fee?
Fuck these leeches.
I wonder what the guy who drives a train engine is going to be called, now.
I have mostly worked in technical sales. Whenever one of my colleagues calls me an engineer in front of a customer I clarify that I have an engineering background but I’m not a PEng. It has serious implications for liability, but the distinction is not well understood in society.
So it’s just a matter of him not paying dues?
No it’s a matter of proving competence through documented, supervised work experience, and THEN paying dues.
You get PEng after serving your post grad time as an Engineer in Training under a an established PEng. So same Engineering background, just a level up title distinction. Somebody claiming they are either of these that didn’t get that diploma is lying. But in the USA garbage collection dudes are Sanitary Engineers, it waters down the term.
If only there was a professional kind of designation that would separate the engineers by profession from just engineers by function.
They should call it a professional engineer. And have a ring or something to show they’re special. They need to show they’ve done the actual engineering work and the thesis to boot.
They do, you say?
So they DO distinguish already between Professional Engineers and engineers. So it’s just a matter of him not paying dues? Like a cheesy license fee?
Fuck these leeches.
I wonder what the guy who drives a train engine is going to be called, now.
I earned and wear a ring, but am not a PEng.
I have mostly worked in technical sales. Whenever one of my colleagues calls me an engineer in front of a customer I clarify that I have an engineering background but I’m not a PEng. It has serious implications for liability, but the distinction is not well understood in society.
No it’s a matter of proving competence through documented, supervised work experience, and THEN paying dues.
You get PEng after serving your post grad time as an Engineer in Training under a an established PEng. So same Engineering background, just a level up title distinction. Somebody claiming they are either of these that didn’t get that diploma is lying. But in the USA garbage collection dudes are Sanitary Engineers, it waters down the term.