The term "Consultant" is just as bad.
See we have nice people on here...
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-biggest-idiot-on-facebook
I did an unfocused rant trying to highlight that engineering is undervalued in this country compared to the time spent learning the job, whether on the job, through university, day release, apprenticeships etc compared to other countries.
I will now move on with my sad lonely life and not bother this site again.
Surely you're not an engineer unless you wear a boiler suit?
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Well when you put it that eloquently who am I to argue!!?
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There is a clear definition in my eyes between a Technician (the guy who came to replace a broken fridge door) and an Engineer who can design a gas turbine engine.
Technicians and Engineers share equally as important roles in our land. However the time taken to study for years, then become a chartered engineer from practical experience is not recognised and is vastly different than someone who can come and fix your vending machine for you.
As someone who has a protected title I'd suggest that all you grease monkeys shouldn't worry too much as all it seems to offer me is the opportunity to pay £90 a year just to be on the register (required by law). I'm also chartered which doesn't offer much either except for a monthly magazine and a president who can't say the name of the institute correctly.
The whole thing is like nurses and doctors
So engineers spend all their time trying to shag technicians!
I agree that the title should be protected; it's bandied about with no clear distinction of the role.
Maybe the second half is true, but why should the government get involved to do what you suggest in the first half? Who's losing out, apart from touchy uni-qualified engineers?
IIRC (and I could be talking out my arse here), "teacher" and "therapist" are also not protected titles in the UK and I would have thought that misuse of those titles is going to lead to more damage/risk to the public.
There is a clear definition in my eyes between a Technician (the guy who came to replace a broken fridge door) and an Engineer who can design a gas turbine engine.
That's the thing, the guy who is replacing the fridge door may well have done a 4/5 year apprentiship in refrigeration, and be more knowledgable about it than a designer with a generic mechanical engineering degree.
And what would you call the guy who troubleshoots and repairs the gas turbine?
Engineer does not exclusively mean designer.
