Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
by Osmium on Saturday January 10, 2015 @06:31AM
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> An engineer is defined as a practitioner of engineering, not a person with an engineering degree.
It goes further than that actually. The term 'engineer' is often legally-protected, and often a degree is a pre-requisite, but isn't the only one. This becomes important when e.g. you're building bridges.
It goes further than that actually. The term 'engineer' is often legally-protected, and often a degree is a pre-requisite, but isn't the only one. This becomes important when e.g. you're building bridges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_eng...
for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered_Engineer_(UK)