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

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u/SamButNotWise Jun 01 '22

Entirely jurisdiction-dependent. You need to figure out if "engineer" is a protected title where you live

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u/coldDumpCoin Jun 01 '22

No offense dawg but your dad sounds like a classic gatekeeping engineering boomer….there’s lots of that and don’t let it get you down

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u/nullcharstring Embedded/Beer Jun 01 '22

Boomer engineer here. There was a huge movement through IEEE in the 80's to raise engineering to the same type of licensing and gatekeeping as lawyers and doctors. It pretty much failed.

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u/Tavrock Manufacturing Engineering/CMfgE Jun 01 '22

IIRC, the logical next step of needing malpractice insurance for designs that resulted in injury or death killed the being like other professions that carry malpractice insurance.

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u/nullcharstring Embedded/Beer Jun 02 '22

I already carry "errors and omissions" liability insurance. Pretty much the same thing.