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by drewcoo
695 days ago
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It's also worth noting that an engineering degree does not make a person an engineer any more than a JD makes someone a lawyer or a beauty school diploma makes someone a hair stylist. Except we allow people to call themselves engineers without having professional accreditation. |
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Naturally. We allow people to practice engineering without professional accreditation. It would be completely nonsensical to prevent someone from being able to state literally what they do. Some specific engineering areas (those most likely to cause human harm) may be more discriminating with respect to who is allowed to do the work, but with respect to engineering in general it is open season. Anyone with the will is free to do it.
We don't (at least with some assumptions about jurisdiction) allow people to practice law or hair styling without professional accreditation. Anyone claiming to be those things without the professional accreditation is lying, so there is at least some logic in trying to stop people from lying. But not so is the case for engineer. Not having professional accreditation does not imply the same.
Except in my country we do prevent engineers from calling themselves engineers unless they have professional accreditation, even though we quite happily allow engineers to practice engineering without professional accreditation. It's the stupidest thing.