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Those of us with professional Engineering titles already have to do a kind of engineering oath anyway.

The problem is the lack of value of the word "engineering" in several countries, where everyone fells like calling themselves engineer after a six weeks bootcamp without suffering any issue with it.



> The problem is the lack of value of the word "engineering" in several countries

Or the fact that "enginnering" has be co-opted and made de-facto illegal for all but the small minority who agree to pay the local mafia^Wengineering association. This is especially a problem in North America. In Europe, the problem is different as you can only declare yourself an "engineer" if you've been in the right university.

Anyway, I could be a P.Eng, but paying the yearly racket money... I'll pass.




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