can you for instance,call yourself an engineer if you don't have an engineering qualification?

Answer 1

In the US if you offer yourself an engineer, you must be registered with the state you are working in. If you offer yourself as an engineer and perform engineering work as independent consultant you can be fined for doing so if you do not meet the qualifications and registered with the state.

There are a couple of exceptions. If you work for a corporation, they absorb the liability and you can practice engineering for the corporation without being registered.

There is also what I call "joke" designation such as domestic engineer. This is not engineering - is is cleaning house!

Answer 2

The name or title of 'engineer' has no protection in the UK so anyone can call themselves an engineer as long as they don't claim to be a Chartered Engineer (CEng). This is why professional engineers (the ones with qualifications, degrees and/or CEng) get upset when John Smith, the local plumber, calls himself a 'Sanitary Engineer' or worse, 'Qualified Sanitary Engineer' because he did a 2-day course at the local Tech. If John Smith called himself a 'Qualified Plumber' that would be OK. It's the word 'engineer' that sets their teeth on edge.
In other professions title is protected, eg, In Medicine, if you call yourself a doctor and set up in practice, and don't have qualifications, you can end up in a lot of trouble even if you do the job perfectly.
Medical doctors go through many years of training before they achieve their qualification to practise. So do qualified engineers, but few people know this. They just see engineers as people who mend things.

Answer 3

You can call yourself anything you want , however an engineer needs the education and qualifications to be one. I for one would not want someone who doesn't have the qualifications calling him/her self a chemical engineer, and working for an oil company. Same goes for a Structural engineer. Hate to be going over a bridge and fall into the ocean. Another place I personally would want a qualified, experienced, educated engineer, Nuclear Power plants. Imagine someone who doesn't have the proper credentials there. Another way of looking at the saying, There goes the neighborhood, explosion!!!!

Answer 4

Of course one can call himself an Engineer it one is involved in any form of Engineering. What one can not do without lying about it call oneself a Certified Engineer because the qualification comes with a degree or a certificat or a diploma which one has to bave to be called a Certified Engineer also known as a B Tech or an M Tech in a wide range of engineering activities.

Answer 5

Some people in the US do what you described, for example, sometimes the job of a custodian will be labeled, "sanitation engineer" or a forklift driver called "operating engineer."

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the title "engineer":
"The title "engineer" is normally used only by individuals who have an academic degree (or equivalent work experience) in one of the engineering disciplines. In some countries of Continental Europe the title is limited by law to people with an engineering degree, and the use of the title by others (even persons with equivalent work experience) is illegal. Similar laws exist in most if not all American states and Canadian provinces; they usually dictate that only those who have passed the Professional Engineer examination may call themselves engineers. However, the reach of such laws is often limited to cover only situations involving intentional deceit or fraud. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

Answer 6

In the English speaking world the word engineer has a dual etymology: it derives both from "ingenium" cleverness; and from "ingenero" to create.
Thus highly qualified chartered professional engineers, trained in science and mathematics call themselves engineers. Properly, people with lesser qualifications should call themselves technicians or craftsmen. It irritates many professionally qualified engineers when the man who comes to fix the washing machine or the photocopier calls himself an engineer.

Answer 7

No you can not. If you are working as an engineer then you are officially qualify as an engineer. In some cases some engineering company such as engineering consultant company require that you pass the e.i.t / f.e with a score of 70% to work for them.

Answer 8

Hahahah, Bush, President, hahahahahahah! That's the best answer of any question I've ever read....

You can do engineering work in some industries but you'll have to work under another (real) engineer. Once you get qualification, you can work independently.

Answer 9

Anyone can call themselves an engineer, but most companies confer that status to people with engineering degrees or who have proved themselves by extensive experience (usually 10 yrs). However, in most (if not all) states, only those who have passed the state exams can call themselves "Professional Engineers".

Answer 10

One really shouldn't. It's an insult to all those that have got good and proper engineering qualifications. You could be litigated if intending to mislead people, too.
I do know that people call themselves nurse when they are merely unqualified aides. AND I GET REALLY P**SED ABOUT THAT.
Depends what sort of ego you have and if you can afford the insurance if all goes t*ts up.
True professionals also belong to a professional body and union.
But there again, I'm a GODDESS..............