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		leshow on Oct 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career... You shouldn't be able to call yourself an engineer unless you have a BEng, personally. Some places actually have laws against calling yourself an engineer without one.

Sureai on Oct 20, 2019 [–]

I have a b.sc and a m.sc in mechanical engineering. Can I not call myself an engineer now anymore?

leshow on Oct 21, 2019 | [–]

Where I live, no, you need a professional engineering designation. It's a license, sort of like a lawyer or doctor has, http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/2057/la_id/1.htm.

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