In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver. How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which line you serve on?
Hardy
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Well, no. A train driver is called an "engineer", but in general, most engineers have little training in driving trains. When I was in college, "Train Driving 301" was an elective but it was considered such an end-of-the-line course that I opted for "Rope Pushing 340" instead. "Bull Throwing 208" was also an option, but that course was always oversubscribed.
There are very few distinguished engineers in North America. The last one I can remember was George Goethals.
I'm not proud of the fact that I'm an engineer. I do my best to keep my aberrations hidden from such people.
Easy... Train engineers have greasy fingernails. The other ones have pocket protectors.
Sanitary engineers have mops.
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One would prepend or append the title "engineer" with the sort of engineer one is.
I call myself an engineering techinician.
Real engineers know what a Log Log Duplex Decitrig is and how to use it.
I'm an engineer, but please don't tell my mom. She thinks I'm still playing piano in a cat house.
Jim
Around here, if you tell someone that you're an engineer, they usually assume that you're the tech kind, not a train driver. They will often ask "what kind", meaning mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer. I answer "I design electronics" and they usually look impressed.
There are also "stationary engineers", people who operate power plants, boilers, HVAC systems in buildings.
Does a stationery engineer design paper products?
John
TV repaimen in England are called 'engineer', so what's your point?
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Martin
Or someone that operates heavy construction equipment.
When I say I am an engineer, they change the subject.
When our devision's Chief Engineer was kicked upstairs to be Regional VP of Engineering, we bought him a box of busines cards that read "Emperor".
An Engineer would be a good name for an engine designer.. "The crank shaft has metric and standard units mixed up...Call the Engineer!.."
Others in the car design team would be: The Seateneer The Windoweneer The Differentialeneer The Brakeneer The Dashboardeneer The Rimeneer The Exhausteneer The Autobodyeneer :P
Reverse Engineering Engineers could be Buccaneer Engineers.
While unsanitary engineers need mops.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
I've had a few occasions when I have had to put "I design electronics"(sort of) on forms, for banks and other slave traders, and the sheeple assumed that that everything comes "designed", they had no idea that people actually do it.
Martin
You don't. Tell them "HO".
-- Keith
Yeah, I never could get my mother to understand what I did.
Does a staff engineer design flagpoles?
John
No, MRSA
Martin
An engineer is someone who works on engines.
Sometime back, in the U.K. 'Computer programmers' called themselves 'Software Engineers,' simply, and only because, it sounded less nerdy!
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Frequently.
You need to run up the ideas on something, you know.
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