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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)

A bit off topic but please indulge me:

“Only holders of a P.Eng. licence are legally permitted to use the title P.Eng.’ or the term ‘engineer’ in their job title, or to use any other term, title or description that may lead to the belief that they are authorized to practice professional engineering,” McCutcheon said.

That's interesting to me. We're looser with the term "Engineer" here in Switzerland. So I wanted to ask, do you have Network Engineers in Ontario? If not what are the people who design, plan and implement new computer networks called instead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In common parlance they will call themselves software or network engineers, but their official title will be something else, a title my company uses is "senior software engineering 1/2/3" the -ing considered enough to change it. It's usually not a big deal unless you falsely represent yourself like this guy is doing or you're going through a legal process (I got a US work visa and the lawyers stressed that I should not refer to myself as an engineer during any immigration process unless I really was one for instance).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

My work generally does the same thing, but for the record if PEO starts to pay attention to software engineers then adding the ----ing will absolutely not be distinct enough.

They made EITs switch to calling themselves EITs rather than Engineer In Training.

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