So who's an engineer?
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I'm just interested to see who is and who isn't an engineer (or currently training).
I imagine a lot of us are.

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Indeed

There is only one real distinction

Indeed. In the rest of the world the dfinition of an Engineer is quite clear, in this country washing machine repair men call them selves engineers.

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have the degree, but wouldnt consider myself an engineer, as i solve problems by rule of thumb/guestimates in my work. dont have the time and customers dont have the budget to pay me to sit and work every finite detail out properly..

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Could perhaps do with a definition for "Enginneer"?

Couldn't agree more with above; Can. Worms.

im a programmer - but from what i understand the term 'engineer' can be adopted to anything these days..

im sure we have computer engineers where i work.. what the fuk do they do?

i partake in software design every day.. perhaps i will stick the word 'engineer' after my name from now on..

Edited by MarkGTT on 28th Apr, 2010.

well if ya from up north then its eng in eer lol is the under the bonnet lol

Edited by nibble36 on 28th Apr, 2010.

Edited by Sprocket on 28th Apr, 2010.

I'm not an engineer, nor am I a mechanic. I just break things a lot and am too tight to pay others to fix them.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

A friend of mine is just finishing a degree in 'environmental engineering' if he passes he will be an engineer, yet in the last 3 years he he has not spent one day in a workshop!

Maybe the question should be more like, who spends there working life in a workshop fabricating and doing manly things with metal? lol



engineer |ɛndʒɪˌnɪə|
noun
a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works.
• a person qualified in a branch of engineering, esp. as a professional : aeronautical engineer.
• the operator or supervisor of an engine, esp. a railroad locomotive or the engine on an aircraft or ship.
• a skillful contriver or originator of something : the prime engineer of the approach.
verb [ trans. ]
design and build (a machine or structure) : the men who engineered the tunnel.
• skillfully or artfully arrange for (an event or situation) to occur : she engineered another meeting with him.
• modify (an organism) by manipulating its genetic material : [as adj., with submodifier ] ( engineered) genetically engineered plants.
ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive, devise,’ from Latin ingenium (see engine ); in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -eer .




engineer
noun
1 a structural engineer designer, planner, builder. See table.
2 the ship's engineer operator, driver, controller.
3 the prime engineer of the approach originator, deviser, designer, architect, inventor, developer, creator; mastermind.
verb
he engineered a takeover deal bring about, arrange, pull off, bring off, contrive, maneuver, manipulate, negotiate, organize, orchestrate, choreograph, mount, stage, mastermind, originate, manage, stage-manage, coordinate, control, superintend, direct, conduct; informal wangle.
BRANCHES OF ENGINEERING
aerospace electronic metallurgical
aeronautical environmental mineral
agricultural genetic petroleum
architectural geoenvironmental nuclear
bioengineering geophysical software
biomedical geotechnical structural
chemical human systems
civil industrial textile
computer knowledge transportaion
electrical mechanical
electromechanical mechatronic

The technicalities of my job dictate im an engineer, but im not, my work is far too crude at times.

And this is the thing. Do engineers work in workshops?

Machinists, technicians, fabricators ect work in workshops, engineers instruct the workshops.

Brunell was an engineer, but he wouldn't knw one end of a lathe from another.

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Chartered engineer.
I wouldn't call anyone who builds or maintains engines an engineer.

Job titles have gone mad, I'm a "senior network technician" but am 23!
Also one of my mates used to be a window fitter, "insulation technician"

Im a student engineer at uni. And i spend most of my time in the workshop building a formula student car. I like to think im more of a practical engineer. That and my memory is crap for formulas and rubbish like that.

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I'm a research and development (mechanical) engineer specialising in Surface Acoustic Wave technology, but i spend most my days on here.

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I'm accredited by a professional institution as an Incorporated Engineer and i can use the letter I.Eng after my name.

However, I know people who even consider me to be a technician because I am not chartered! I will be chartered one day when I get the time to do the necessary thesis. Probably when I retire!

Unfortunately, the term "engineer" is abused in the UK. In Europe it would be illegal to call yourself an Engineer without having profesional qualifications.

However, I'm not sure that I agree with this. I know Chartered Engineers who I would not trust to make a paper aeroplane. I also know brilliant engineers without a paper qualification to their name.

I also use the definition: An engineer knows how things work. An Engineer knows why things work.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

I also use the definition: An engineer knows how things work. An Engineer knows why things work.[/quote]

Well put Paul

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Lol or "IT or anything with a plug at the end monkey"

On 29th Apr, 2010 apbellamy said:

On 28th Apr, 2010 MarkGTT said:
im sure we have computer engineers where i work.. what the fuk do they do?

When I started out I was a field engineer, these days I have to make do with 'Senior Technical Infrastructure Developer'. Neither of them fit what I actually do. I think IT Monkey is a lot closer.

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no im not a qualified engineer.

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