[ThrowOregonAway]

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]

I'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]

We have no such thing in the US. There is no license for software "engineering" here, it's a made up term.

[gnabgib]

There is in Canada, licensed and bonded.

[rapatel0]

As 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]

This 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]

This 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]

Well my country didn't change the law, so I still think it's very weird how every american is an engineer.