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Originally Posted by Kate Mosley
One thing in your post I will take a big issue with - it DOES take a degree to be an engineer. If you do not have an engineering degree, you are not an engineer. I seem to remember a thread on this from a while back, but my limited ability to search seems to not be able to find it.
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You know ... it's absolute statements like this that really drive me crazy.
I am an engineer for Parker.
I do not have an engineering degree.
I have 20 years experiance in Electrical Engineering.
I have 7 years experiance in Mechanical Engineering.
I have an associates degree in Information Technology (not an Engineering degree)
I can (and do) design fixtures and robots.
I can (and do) calculate tolerance stackups and run (stress) bending analysis.
I can (and do) sepcify components based of the requirements of the project.
I can (and do) calculate the number of Amp-turns in a solonoid.
I can (and do) run SPC and 6 Sigma calculations.
I can (and do) work in a functional design team enviroment.
Etc,etc,etc.
Which part of being an engineer am I not?
School gives you the tools you will need to be an engineer, but school is not the only place where you can get those tools (although I would not suggest my route ... as the school of hard knocks is far harder). Experiance teaches you how to use those tools. Both education and experiance are needed (usually) to become an engineer, but where you get these is not exclusive to school.
Please try and avoid using absolutes when dealing with human beings, as you will invariably run into someone (in this case me) whom is the exception to the rule.
Sorry Kate, I just don't agree with you.