On 4/12/2021 11:16 AM, wrote:

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But you are not an engineer. I'm guessing to be an official engineer, you have to have a college degree in one of the engineering fields. Like Jay has an official Juris Doctorate degree so he can officially call himself a lawyer. A good analogy would be Bill Gates. 4th richest person on earth. But he does not have a college degree. He probably has a bunch of honorary degrees but those don't count. Bill cannot say he is a college graduate. Because he is not. Now obviously that probably means zip to him. You are not an engineer but Frank is. Despite all the engineering accomplishments you have achieved in your life.

True, Tom is not an engineer. But it is true that there are individuals
that can perform engineering related tasks that lack a degree or
Professional Engineer license and they refer to themselves as engineers.