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Tim Hancock brings up everlasting interesting points:

- Very often an engineer (with a degree or not) is called upon to be a test tech, a prototype assemblies, a designer, and other tasks. Does that make one more or less of an "engineer"? (IMHO - more.)

- The lines between CAD equipment "designer" and "engineer" have gotten very blurred in recent years. My thinking is that if the CAD jockey also does design analysis (structural, thermal, fluidic, etc., i.e. uses CAE tools and understands them) and understands the design's application (e.g. what the device is supposed to do for the customer/user/patient) than one is not only a "CAD designer".

In my long experience, I've worked with very very good engineers with 2-year Engineering Technology degrees, and with incompetent engineers who have advanced degrees (people who I thought: "Well, somebody had to finish last in their class.")