You’re thinking about the “Professional Engineer” title or some variant thereof.
You’ll be happy to hear that anyone can call themselves an engineer, even in Oregon, as a Federal Court correctly decided in a first amendment case brought by Mats Järlström.
Police is a protected title but anyone can be a thought police. One can be a spin doctor without any academic acumen. Notice how when qualified, the words take on a broader and sometimes illustrative meaning than when used in isolation. Context matters.
You’re thinking about the “Professional Engineer” title or some variant thereof.
You’ll be happy to hear that anyone can call themselves an engineer, even in Oregon, as a Federal Court correctly decided in a first amendment case brought by Mats Järlström.
https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
You’re welcome.
Strange hill.
Police is a protected title but anyone can be a thought police. One can be a spin doctor without any academic acumen. Notice how when qualified, the words take on a broader and sometimes illustrative meaning than when used in isolation. Context matters.
Now do every other common term in software engineering.
Someone once told me they built a trampoline and I show up in their backyard and there’s nothing.