[Tim Hancock]

I only have an associates degree in mechanical engineering. For 21 years I designed mainly one off automated machinery for an automated machine design and build company. Over those first 21 years I wore many hats ranging from hands on electrical panel building and machine final assembly/start up/testing to drawing on the boards to machine design using cad. I am named on patents for that company.

For the past 11 years I have worked for a company that designs and builds large stamping line equipment for the automotive industry. Pretty sure all of us in both our mechanical and electrical engineering departments have at least an associate degree with many having bachelors degrees. We are all referred to as "engineers" by our company.

When people ask me what I do for a living I tell them I am a mechanical engineer that designs machinery. Never really thought about whether that description is "proper", but it seems sufficient to convey what I do for a living all these years. I guess I don't really care all that much about the whole questioning of the title or college degree type at this stage of my life.