All nice words, but I'd still like to RETAIN my engineer status and not be robbed of it by a change of definition from a group of self-serving people with some sort of agenda/purpose.
There will always be a difference of opinion regarding who has what grade of qualification, whether it be from Oxford, Cambridge, Sunderland or Dudley.
There will always be debate over who really is the title, such as "Doctors" - of medicine? music? art? language? mathematics? physics? philosophy? or just plain Ju-Ju?
If engineers can be redefined then so can "doctors" of engineering.
On the LAE front - I spent 4 hours sitting my section L Oral exams for A&C Jet Helicopters - since found the surveyor was a bit of a stickler and that explained why we went through the whole of the Section L Syllabus.
I have since passed more A's & C's and Type Ratings, and converted to Pt 66.
I haven't written a Thesis (as such) but I feel I've earned the title quoted on my original government approved and internationally recognised licences (Aircraft Maintenance Engineer's Licence)