Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
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Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
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Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#2Simple solution: UK traffic lights, leaving Amber 3 seconds.
Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#3Honest curiosity: is it fraud (in the US) to claim that you are a member of a profession that you are not? (I am not saying that is what he intended to do here).
For example, if someone owes me money, is it illegal for me to send them a letter, in which I purport to be a lawyer?
Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#4would you not have to be paid to "practice"
Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#5The chart he created shows he has more engineering skills than the beaurcrats running the Oregon Sate Boards.
Another example of government employees being incompentant.
Here's one quick example of cities shortening yellow lights for profits.[1]
1. https://www.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-sho...
Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#6Yep. I went to an engineering school and multiple professors told us to get our PE licenses before we called ourselves "Engineers". No court will take you seriously if you aren't licensed. Upside, if you do have a PE license you can get side-gigs as an expert witnesses.
Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#7Oregon is where I grew up. I returned there recently and was shocked at what I saw: a society destroyed by socialism.
There is too little capitalism in Oregon. In fact, so little that freedom is essentially dead in Oregon. I think running all of the socialists out of the big cities and getting some fire-breathing capitalists with their immigrant sidekicks in would really crack the heads of these totalitarian nut cases. I think of Oregon when the phrase "Lois Lowry's book 'The Giver' was controversial when it came out". A society so addicted to success that it develops a kind of inability to sense its own lack of freedom...sclerotic, really. Hence the fire breathing dragons to melt things down.
The great thing about capitalists is that if they don't like the laws, the laws will get changed! Almost like magic...almost.
Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#8Oregon could make a killing fining students practicing engineering in college.
Way to pass up a revenue stream.
Re: Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
#9Yep. I went to an engineering school and multiple professors told us to get our PE licenses before we called ourselves "Engineers". No court will take you seriously if you aren't licensed. Upside, if you do have a PE license you can get side-gigs as an expert witnesses.
How does this apply to "software engineers"? Do they have to call themselves something else in the state?
As far as I know there is no national accreditation body for the title in the US.
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#10I run up against this sometimes in Canada.
I studied "Software Engineering" and have a bachelors degree from Australia. I am a member of the Australian Institute of Engineers (accredited degree).
If I say something like "I am a Software Engineer" when I work in Canada, any other Engineers will get all prickly and go on about how that's not a recognized kind of Engineer, and it's illegal to say-so, blah blah.
Even if I put B. Eng. (Software) after my name they get uppity.
To get my degree accredited in Canada, I must work some huge number of hours as a Software Engineer working with Software Engineers. But of course, there is no such thing in Canada, and so... yeah.