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Originally Posted by fanaudical
... I often run across "engineers" in industry who have been falsely titled; many don't have the expertise or education to carry the title. Some have been promoted to the title after completing years of technician-level work in their company. I have met several of these people who truly are arrogant (and in some cases dangerous in their practice of engineering). Fortunately, almost all of these cases required oversight of a PE who had final design authority...
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I work in a division (485 people) called "Weapons Systems Engineering". Some of us do systems engineering, some of us do test and qualification stuff, some of us do basic research on detonation/shock physics and some others do stuff with hydrogen-materials interactions. Our degrees cover: (duh) engineering, chemistry, metallurgy and physics. Some HR monkey has declared that, since we're in "... systems engineering", we all must be engineers.
There were not a few bad feelings among the chemistry and physics PhDs. Primadonnas all of them - even worse than chemical engineers.