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Conservative contestant claims to be an engineer — he’s not (www.sootoday.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Generally, we have levels of technical expertise based on how many years of schooling you did.

  • Technician: 2 years of college (diploma)
  • Technologist: 3 years of college (advanced diploma)
  • Engineer: 4 years of university (bachelor's degree) plus 5 years of training as an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) and a successful attempt at the Professional Engineer (PEng) exam

Of these, only "engineer" is a protected title in Ontario. But you can get additional certification through OACETT to become a Certified Technician (CTech) or Certified Technologist (CT).

So, depending on the person's education and training, they could be called a Network Technician, Network Technologist, or Network Engineer.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Slight correction - in Ontario it is 48 months of experience and EIT designation is not required. In fact, PEO paused that program to new applications (though they are working on a new one to be implemented at a later date). The exam is the NPPE (National Professional Practice Examination).

    Source: recent engineering grad.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It seems that it's actually quite difficult to get qualifying experience if one does software, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11220591 (since the experience has to be obtained under a P.Eng and it has to fit the safeguarding of life, health, etc criteria (so the work to develop a new gaming app likely isn't going to count).

    This is probably why so few folks in software actually have P.Eng as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25826520 (regardless of if they use a title with Engineer in it or not).

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