Reply to: The word "engineer" has been debased

[denver2k]

An engineer is someone with a 3-4 year engineering degree followed by some practical experience in industry or maybe a Chartered Engineer.
Anyone else is a technician of some kind.
No wonder the country is in the state its in.
If your British Gas boiler man calls himself an engineer, why will your children aspire to become one?

Before becoming "Consultant"..my role used to be Software Engineer

[Churchill]

"Did not do well at school"

Wrong. Again. Habit of a lifetime?

[minestrone]

It's the "couldn't afford to loaf around for 4 years doing f**k all" route.

"Did not do well at school"

[sasguru]

It's the "couldn't afford to loaf around for 4 years doing f**k all" route.

Fair enough. Good for you.

[Churchill]

Is that the dunce's route?

It's the "couldn't afford to loaf around for 4 years doing f**k all" route.

[sasguru]

Also, might I suggest that he studies the link he supplied with particular reference to the "Further Learning" section.

Is that the dunce's route?

[Churchill]

It most certainly is for Mechanical, it was an Hons when I finished my degree and now it is now a Masters.

The current requirement for CEng registration is a Masters Level Engineering qualification

Don't know what discipline you refer to but I am fairly sure most of the 'proper' ones will require a degree.

Anyway, architect is reserved but people still use that incorrectly, I know someone with an honorary doctorate who calls himself doctor. I don't think Dr Robert in the blow monkeys completed 5 years in medical school either. A law is only good if it is enforced.

I refer the honourable dick-head to the following http://www.theiet.org/careers/profreg/ceng/

Also, might I suggest that he studies the link he supplied with particular reference to the "Further Learning" section.

[minestrone]

Oh no you don't you know!

CEng is not dependant on holding a degree of any type.

It most certainly is for Mechanical, it was an Hons when I finished my degree and now it is now a Masters.

The current requirement for CEng registration is a Masters Level Engineering qualification

Don't know what discipline you refer to but I am fairly sure most of the 'proper' ones will require a degree.

Anyway, architect is reserved but people still use that incorrectly, I know someone with an honorary doctorate who calls himself doctor. I don't think Dr Robert in the blow monkeys completed 5 years in medical school either. A law is only good if it is enforced.

[Moscow Mule]

Bollocks. If you're that smart then getting a degree should be a piece of piss.

Still takes time though. Time you don't have if you've got work/family commitments.

[Menelaus]

Bollocks. If you're that smart then getting a degree should be a piece of piss.

He's got a degree, just not in maths.

[suityou01]

So you're and Engineer are you? Where's your ******* hammer then?

That's what they used to shout in my day.

Your dropped your bolster.

HTH

[Churchill]

I couldn't be bothered with the chartered route either.

Too much hassle and no real benefit.

It was KPI that counted towards our bonus, therefore even though I'm not a CMath, I reckoned it was worth it.

[sasguru]

Oi! I'm a CMath but one of the smartest mathematicians I know doesn't have a mathematics degree and can't get in.

Bollocks. If you're that smart then getting a degree should be a piece of piss.

[FSM with Cheddar]

I couldn't be bothered with the chartered route either.

Too much hassle and no real benefit.

[Menelaus]

Yes those mathematicians have upheld standards and don't let any old riff-raff in

Oi! I'm a CMath but one of the smartest mathematicians I know doesn't have a mathematics degree and can't get in.