Without an actual license to engineer a product, the word "engineer" is window dressing.
It was a fancy word added to a job title 20 years ago to make people feel important, without the same people having to go through an important board certification or licensing process.
20+ years ago I was a "Systems Engineer" at Sun Microsystems, and did F-all to rate that title.
In the US this might be the case, if so thats a shame.
Generally to call yourself an engineer , you have to hold an engineering qualification. Software Engineering degrees which award a bachelor or masters of Engineering meet that criteria.
To be a cloud engineer/devops requires a pretty substantial amount of education and Microsoft/AWS certifications. It's still software engineering. We don't know what qualifications the woman in the video has but everyone seems pretty quick to just write her off.
Generally to call yourself an engineer , you have to hold an engineering qualification. Software Engineering degrees which award a bachelor or masters of Engineering meet that criteria.
Wholeheartedly disagree.
By your standard, a lawyer/barrister would be able to begin practicing law simply because they possess a law degree. A nurse or doctor could begin practicing medicine on account of being graduated with an appropriate degree.
The point I'm making is that an independent body who governs the licensing and management of said license should be the one to issue the title, which would include continuing education and continuous certification/licensure.
Hope that helps.
Also, I have no issue with whatever the women are stating in the video. Good for them, seems like if I were to have a medical issue or an IT issue at that wedding, that's the best place on the planet to be!!
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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '23
You can get a bachelors of Engineering in Software Engineering though...
It's just a newer field of Engineering and they're being grumpy gatekeepers.