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Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers
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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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In Germany engineer is a regulated term. Computer scientists wanting to call themselves engineer or software engineer need to complete certain higher education programs. A B.Sc. program in CS is enough for example.
The people doing software engineering without such a degree in the US are definitely in the minority, so there's not much point to the hand-wringing generally speaking.
Same for the Netherlands.
Yep, but only the Dutch word is protected so we just use English titles everywhere
Same in France. Anyone can call themselves a "software engineer". But the title of "engineer" (ingénieur) is specific for people who graduated from a school allowed to deliver engineering degrees.
In Dutch it’s also ingenieur, I wonder where we got that from
It comes from the Latin word ingenium.
Really? I thought Ir. is only with a masters
That is correct. There is both and Ing and Ir title that are Engineer. Ir for masters and Ing for higher education.
See Titels voeren.