If you go to the States and tell them that you are an engineer they think you drive a freight train, so I suppose its a national understanding.
The new Part 66 plastic licence book does indeed miss out the word Engineer, however all is not lost, if you feel that you require to be formally recognised as an Engineer, then join the RAeS and register as Eng. Tech, or I Eng , see the other thread running on this subject. it is possible for a senior LAE holding a management position to register as a C Eng.
I think that we may be our own worst enemies in this, it is now common for all grades of mech, tech, LAE to be refered to as Engineers, even in employment contracts and so on,
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om15