Aircraft ares designed built and tested by degree qualified engineers not tradesmen but aero / mech / elec /electronic / materials engineers etc etc.
As I said earlier a lot a aircraft tradesmen at QF leave school after year 10 , engineers have at least six , and often seven years (if you do Eng @ UMelb) of full time education more than you , something you will simply never make up, so stop pretending you are part of this group.
The authority that recognizes & registers/licenses Engineers in Australia is the Institute of Engineers ; it is not CASA - they regulate aircraft tradies.
HM , all very interesting but we don't really have loco/flight engineers these days. Your thinking is a bit black and white brother , bellowing at me "you are wrong", not so nice perhaps a touch of schoolteacher syndrome.
Engineering Corps of Army the enlisted guys yes great job they do at Clearing and maintaining roads/airfields , operating barges ferries , clearing obstacles etc etc. But because a soldier drives a grader for the Eng Corp -that doesn't make him an engineer. Brilliant grader/bulldozer driver and all that he might be.
In the modern vernacular if someone describes themself as an "engineer" it means they have an engineering degree - simply concept really.
Kiwi, at sleep with Teddy bears. Well that is one way of looking at it another way would be that these guys had tons more drive , self discipline & toughness than you. Because they we able to push themselves through the endless hours of study , in late teens early twenties when it was pretty much party time for the Trade boys. They didn't want to be working the graveyard shift in their 40s and did something to ensure that didn't happen.
Notice Clifford who is Professional Eng is your Chairman don't see too many self called aircraft spanner men "engineers" gracing the boardrooms.
It is only a handful of former British Colonies who have adopted this quaint habit of bestowing the title "engineers" upon aircraft mechanics.
Got to love the Brits and their titles.
Actually looks like three Engineers on the QF board
You might have fooled CASA into calling you "Engineers" doesn't seem the Institute of Engineers , or others were so easily fooled.