On 24 Feb 2009 14:25:04 -0800, [email protected] (Mark Post) wrote:

>There's nothing in Federal law about this, but there is in some states.  
>Texas, for example.  
>Which, ironically, being the home of EDS meant that at some point, all the job 
>titles had 
>to change for people that weren't licensed engineers.  Systems programmers, 
>for example, 
>went from Software Systems Engineers (really descriptive, eh?) to 
>Infrastructure Specialists.  
>Much better, don't you think?

So they still have titles that don't pigeon-hole them into
pre-conceived notions.

Does that Texas law have an exception to those who run engines (train
operators)?

It's funny that people want to own the word "engineer" for someone
with certified knowledge of fields which may have nothing to do with
engines.

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