[ale] What's my job title?

[Scott Plante]

If you can't get to the NYT article, here are a couple of others. Apparently it's not that unusual for Oregon to go after people using the term engineer. 

http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/26/after-challenging-red-light-cameras-oreg
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/04/beaverton_man_claims_oregon_st.html 



----- Original Message -----

From: "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> 
To: ale at ale.org 
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 9:19:14 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] What's my job title? 

The quote in the bizjournal link is roughly what I see in our documents 
("...special knowledge...acquired by engineering education...") 

I can't get to the NY Times link. 

But, I have to trust our internal counsel on the matter and they seem to 
be in alignment with NC. California is similar, they use the same 
"special knowledge" statement. 

On 2017-05-09 17:09, DJ-Pfulio wrote: 
> Don't claim to be an Engineer in Oregon without a PE. 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/business/traffic-light-fine.html 
> 
> NC's Take on "Engineer" titles: 
> http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2004/04/12/focus3.html 
> 
> I tried to stay with reputable sources. 
> 
> On 05/09/2017 06:42 PM, Alex Carver wrote: 
>> On 2017-05-09 15:29, 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. 
>> 
>> The source is internal employer legal documentation that I wouldn't be 
>> able to send out. That documentation is based on interpretation of 
>> various laws by internal counsel. So they say the sheepskin holds the 
>> title. 
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