[ale] What's my job title?

[Damon L. Chesser]

In the field of Computers Science (or if you prefer IT), an Engineer, in 
an IT dept. is a person who designs and builds system to specs.  In 
Canada, you can not be called an Engineer with out a degree by law.  
That is why COMPTIA issues LPI level 1-3.  COMPTIA is based in Canada 
and call not call you a Certified Linux Engineer.


As for source, I called COMPTIA a few years ago and asked about 
equivocal certifications and titles.  In The USA,  you CAN and most 
likely are called an Engineer.  Nobody confuses that with a guy who 
builds a road, building, bridge, or designs IC chips/systems. I can see 
if you are working for an Engineering firm (of any kind, civil or 
otherwise), then most likey they would not call their computer engineers 
"Engineers", but only for clarity's sake.


In These United States, you may call yourself a Computer Engineer and 
not fear prosecution (Red Hat Certified Engineer anybody?). Anything 
else is just pish posh elitism AND is just an opinion, in all it's glory 
and authority.


On 05/09/2017 06:29 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 04:01 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> My office-mate does a lot of circuit and mechanical designs for his
>> work.  However his degree is in astrophysics but he isn't permitted to
>> call himself an engineer because that's technically not his training.
>> The rationale comes from legal requirements.  So anyone at work with an
>> engineering degree can be called an engineer.  My office-mate can call
>> himself scientist or physicist.
> Source please.
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