As an apprentice engineer I have witnessed that the term "Engineer" is by far and away overused and has lost much of its true definition.
Many people in workplaces are referred to as "Engineers", yet all they do is paperwork. This is absolutely
NOT engineering. It is Administration.
Engineers are involved in the design, development, manufacture, test and maintenance of products, whether they be circuit boards, bridges across rivers, aeroplanes, cars, whatever. Producing paperwork is NOT "Engineering", never has been and never will be, and nobody who does can call themselves "Engineers".
I cannot call myself an "Engineer" either however, I am merely an apprentice just now, almost finished my Electronics HNC, doing my Mech Eng HNC starting September. However I will be an "Eng" once I'm done with College.
This obsession with "Engineering" titles is merely one part of the modern fad of Office Wallahs inventing new job titles to sex up there boring, mundane and generally completely unecissary Office Wallah jobs where they sit on the internet all day, e-mail their mates and generally bum about. Think about it. "Engineer" sounds interesting. Certainly a lot more so than "Jobsworth who does unecissary paperwork". Also it makes the advert in the jobs section of the paper sound more attractive.
P.S. Spannerhead - nothing wrong with getting the hands dirty, real engineers always do
