On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 5:54 PM Anselm Lingnau via lpi-examdev < [email protected]> wrote:
> There are many places where you don't get to call yourself an “engineer” > unless you are properly licensed as one (like, civil engineer, electrical > engineer, etc.) and are a member of good standing of the relevant > professional > body. “Linux Engineers”, even with a certificate from the LPI, are not > proper > engineers in such places, and trying to pass yourself off as one may have > Dire > Consequences. > It's nice that IT folk frequently operate on an "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" mentality. We never had any complaints about the use of Linux Engineer from any regulatory body. I do recall one licensed engineer from the USA emailed us to express his displeasure, though. I mentioned the acrimony, right? :) There was a kerfuffle between the Professional Engineers of Canada and Microsoft 10 years ago. It went back and forth but eventually resolved as something along the lines of you need to be a licensed professional engineer to call yourself a "Professional Engineer" (in Canada, we put "P.Eng." on the end of our names) but using non-regulated titles like "sanitation engineer" were beyond the purview of the various provincial regulatory bodies. Or they reached an impasse and everyone got bored of the subject. It's been a while. Regardless, there was agreement that Engineer isn't an appropriate title for LPIC-2 so I don't expect that, if someone pitched it again, the request would be successful. Take care, --matt This applies to other titles that IT professionals might want to use, too. > Many years ago some distant colleagues got into trouble for calling their > company “Architects of VoIP”, when here in Germany, architects are people > who > design physical buildings and oversee their construction. The real > architects > are *very* protective of their turf – to a point where their professional > body > will come down like the proverbial ton of bricks on anyone who has the > temerity to style themselves, e.g., a “software architect” on their > business > card and does not happen to have appropriate building-architect > credentials to > back that up. So, those “Architects of VoIP” quickly had to get new > letterheads printed. > > Anselm > -- > Anselm Lingnau · [email protected] · https://www.tuxcademy.org > Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software > Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software > > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: 0x17CF9077 Executive Director, Linux Professional Institute
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