8 Dec
2000
8 Dec
'00
1:57 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
In some states at least, that is only true if you try to market your
talents directly on the open market. If you work for an organization
who does the marketing you can call yourself whatever you want - except
for Registered Professional Engineer.
- don
In most of the US, putting "engineer"
near your name doesn't require that
you hold an engineering certification. For instance, my official title
at my day job is "senior software engineer" but I've never taken a single
software nor engineering course, much less certification exam, in my life.
False. In most states of the U.S., if you represent yourself as an engineer
of any kind, and you are not a licensed engineer, you are committing a
crime, albeit a misdemeanor. Texas is leading the nation in trying to change this.
-dq