Are You An Engineer?

I got my engineering degree in 1983. However I am and always have been a project manager.

 

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Interesting post. Should have had more classifications to vote on. Might have been even more interesting. Like Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, Civil Engineering. Then too more classifications like Doctor, Truck driver, Factory worker, Politician (although that is not really a profession, more of a voted in criminal).
And too with todays emphasis on titles, there are sanitation engineers, train engineers, etc. Why we could have a massive amount of things to choose from. Actually, not sure, but I thought at one time there was a post asking what type of job we all had.
OH, forgot. I'm an Electrical and Chemical Engineer. Even taught that stuff once.

 

i drive a firetruck

 

So you were an attorney than? I'm a Professional Engineer graduated from Utah State in Civil Engineering, the catch all of engineering. Work as a transportation engineer currently, however I was a structural engineer for a few years.

 

Two Types

Soooo, JC,

You know the difference between a mechanical & a civil engineer?

I was told:

One designs weapons~

The other, targets:desk:

 

I worked in the Engineering Dept. on a big boat that shoots airplanes off it, I forget what they were called...

 

I'm not

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You didn't specify what type of engineer, so I had to vote yes, although I'm a locomotive engineer (the guy that drives the trains) and not a technical engineer like I'm sure you were looking for. Though I'm sure our payscale is on par.
Guy~

 

Hmmm... my dad is both of those.

I fall into the close but no cigar category. I've had at least two job titles that contained the word "Engineering"; I've hung out with plenty of engineers, and I know a little (OK, very little ) about both civil and computer engineering. But that's it; I never took a single engineering course.

As memory serves, we've hired several engineers as numismatists at Heritage Auctions. So this thread makes plenty of cents... er, sense to me.

 

I am at the University of Illinois but have no plans of entering the engineering field

 

I is a engineer. I graduated with a physics degree a long time ago.

 

Not even close.

 

:mouth: You nailed it! lol I know quite a few. Like anything else, there's good ones and bad ones. They're supposed to be problem solvers but sometimes you can over analyze things to a point where you create more, unneeded problems!

Then when it gets to personalities and personal lives......lets just say there are some odd ducks in that group!

 

I should probably have mentioned that you don't need an engineering degree to call yourself one, at least in my opinion. All of my engineering knowledge came from on the job experience and older engineers willing to answer my rookie questions.

Now I am the older engineer being asked "Can I ask you something?"

This turned into a pretty good thread, lots of interesting people here...:thumb:

 

You have my respect, being a fireman is quite possibly the hardest job in the world. Well, tied with being a NYC policeman at this time of year.

My dad was a cop for almost 10 years until my mom told him to choose the badge or her. He chose her (smart man) and became a banker. And caught (physically tackled and restrained) a bank robber in his first year.

My uncle was a fireman who retired at 46 after injuring his knees on the job. 83 and still one of the toughest men I have ever known.

 

I am not an engineer. I am, however, a student about to earn BAs in political science and philosophy.

 

Yep - had an Engineering title the first 20 years on the job, new company changed that took us over changed that quickly.

 

I'm certified member of the geek squad; Chemical Engineer.

 

I was a Chairperson of a college Science, Math, and Engineering department for 20+ years. Engineers were easy to serve and understand. It was the Math and Science people that made me laugh with their expectations of public education.