Engineers/Engineering

Delvis · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:53

Freefaller said:
IT's just something I picked up whilst I used to work there - I may have been misinformed or misunderstood.

Personally I find it laughable that technicians call themselves "Engineers". i.e. a BT "Engineer"...

Why though? (Yes I know the thread has been there already

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Would 'BT Technician' be more appropriate?

Freefaller · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:55

I think so.

wonko · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:59

Dave said:
You have to have a four-year degree (or three-year with a topup) to receive chartered accreditation from the Institutes here as well. This is the case with IChemE; I presume it's the case with the other institutes as well.

The educational requirements for Chartered Engineer (and other categories) are defined by the Engineering Council's in their UK-SPEC document which all licenced professional institutions have to follow. For CEng, this is basically a Masters degree although there are some alternate routes.

Delvis · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:02

Freefaller said:
I think so.

Fair play.

Up to whoever governs the place of works job titles though sadly

UK-AL05 · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:48

BigglesPiP said:
I do call myself an Engineer. I have a B.Eng with honours. I develop these:

That counts right?

Also, design is a very small part of engineering, even if it is the job that most engineers have in common. I design testing some of the time, but level 3 support (they're usually developers/testers doing support) don't get as much call to design stuff.

But on the developer side you don't come across support vector machines very much either?

Nate Silvers · 10 Nov 2011 at 17:43

Real engineers are very smart, engineer is Latin for genius. They will be exceptionally good at mathematics, physics and science using these to build technology. They don't get paid £60 an hour for nothing.

There is no science to installing a sky media box and I doubt if they could transpose simple formulas.