LukeTim Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Please sign this petition:http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/6271The UK is pretty much the only major nation in which 'Engineer' is not a protected title, meaning anybody can be called (or can call themselves) an Engineer.A Doctor needs a Doctorate, an Architect needs an Architecture degree, but an Engineer can be anyone... usually a 'Gas Engineer' or 'Plumbing Engineer' who comes around the house to fix things. Not strictly an Engineer at all...This causes an image problem whereby people believe that Engineers simply fix things, rather than Design, Invent or, indeed, Engineer them.This needs to change. In the US, France, Germany etc. An Engineer is an Engineer. For some reason, in the UK, this is not always the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdfox Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Not... always the case in the US. I\'ve seen a few cases of 'custodial engineers' and 'sanitation engineers' in my day, and, of course, over here, we also use 'engineer' to refer to what you silly Brits ;P call a 'locomotive driver'--and that didn\'t require any form of licensing until about 1988, after a rather nasty wreck in 1987 involving someone who had a horrible safety record, a defeated in-cab warning system, freight traffic on a high-speed passenger corridor, and the aforementioned person with the horrible record having been using marijuana just before taking control of his freight locomotive... not a good scene.(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Maryland_train_collision for more details.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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