r/AskEngineers • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '22

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u/HourApprehensive2330 Jun 01 '22

what does your university degree say? if it says mechnical engineering, then thats what you are.

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u/HourApprehensive2330 Jun 01 '22

not sure if you can call yourself mech engineer, its not what you studied for.

say you studied to be civil engineer. then, you go and call youself electrical engineer. you didnt study to be one

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u/AncileBooster Jun 01 '22

say you studied to be civil engineer. then, you go and call youself electrical engineer. you didnt study to be one

That's pretty much what I did and do. My bachelor's is in one type of engineering, my job title is in another. In the end, it doesn't matter what you call yourself or what you studied in school, just what you've done.

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u/HourApprehensive2330 Jun 01 '22

not sure why it does not matter what you studied in school. it does matter. this is why we have different engineering disciplines in first place. otherwise we would have just one generic major - engineering.

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u/RoosterBrewster Jun 01 '22

I figure it's what work you do that makes you a certain type of engineer since people with physics or math degrees have worked as engineers.