Calling all engineers (UK based)

[flynfrog]

my question is to you what is the line in the sand that says one is an engineer and one is not

I already told you what they do in France, and to be honest, I would have no problem going along with it.

I could be wrong but i believe most engineers here are bachelor degrees for 4 years a master degree is on top of that

so if i have a masters in English i can be an English engineer right?

I guess to me its a meaningless tittle

[kilcoo316]

I could be wrong but i believe most engineers here are bachelor degrees for 4 years a master degree is on top of that

so if i have a masters in English i can be an English engineer right?

I guess to me its a meaningless tittle

Use your brains man!


Its a 4 year engineering degree [Masters or Diplôme d’Ingénieur in France].


A BEng is 3 yrs here and a MEng 4 [at this particular uni anyway, dunno if that varies].

[flynfrog]

here a b eng is 4 year a m eng is 6

we dont have any 3 year degrees most 4 year degrees take at least 5 years to complete

[kilcoo316]

here a b eng is 4 year a m eng is 6

we dont have any 3 year degrees most 4 year degrees take at least 5 years to complete

You on continental europe?


I know in Holland its quite different, you can just keep repeating modules and modules until you get them. Here you get 2 shots at it [and on the 2nd go, best you can get is 40%]. I suppose they would be more in-depth, but having done design projects with some Dutch... it sure as hell didn't seem like it

[flynfrog]

I'm in the states maybe its a cultural thing

at my uni alone we have

Mechanical
Aereo
Industrial
Electrical
Computer
Ag
Materials
and probably more

the program I am in is Industrial Technology but tis part of the Ag Engineering program most of the jobs I look at will be hired as an industrial engineer or a manufacturing engineer we get paid about the same or more than most "real" engineers so maybe thats why i don't understand the distnicition

[kilcoo316]

Your in the faculty of engineering - your doing an engineering degree.

[flynfrog]

Your in the faculty of engineering - your doing an engineering degree.

depends who you ask

[wazojugs]

I heard that, in the UK, in order to be politically correct, you can't say "a window washer" - you have to refer to them as the engineers for the optical enhancement of the high-rise buildings. Is that true?

I guess that the squeegee and the laptop can now both be categorized as the tools used by the engineers

window cleaner is a vision technician

[ss_collins]

I think the title of engineer should be protected - engineering degree = engineer - nothing else - I was watching a TV programme earlier wher they referred to fitters as engineers - they aint.

Plumbers are not engineers (heating engineer? I think not) so lets call a spade a spade.