For my part I am a Bench Joiner
That's a great skill.
Often, I've had two small benches and thought, "what I really need here is one big bench."
Cougar - that's brilliant!!! 🙂
Rachel
No one knows what CEng means, so it's only really for personal reasons that you'd get it (although it's respected in industry, so is worth it in that sense, but it's not like calling yourself Dr).
I'm not sure anyone in Industry is really that bothered by CEng either - never applied myself and I don't know anyone where I work who has either. NB This is in telecoms R&D.
If I have a degree in Engineering am I an Engineer?
Typical STW, a thread degenerates into pedantry and snobbery.
Anyway, back to more serious matters...does it actually bring loads of fit Spanish women to your front door?
Cougar - Microsoft went through the whole MCTS / MCITP malarkey because Engineer is a reserved title ( I think it was Canada who kicked up a stink about it) in many countries - my German colleagues were inordinately impressed I did engineering at uni, whilst my English colleagues thinks this means I can fix their TV.
Now they've just rejigged the E to Expert, created the MS Certified Solutions Expert and we're back to where we started ...
If I have a degree in Engineering am I an Engineer?
For me you should be chartered OR wear a top hat, splendid facial hair and build beam engines one week and F*** off big railway bridges the next, but there are no rules in the UK that I know of.
dear god there's a reason people think we engineers are ****s.
derive concepts from first principles? bloody hell...


