ASHP - Godsend or the devils spawn?

[Ben-gee]

The best one to wind my son up, who has spent 5 years doing an Engineering degree, is the “Sky Engineers” who gain this heady title after a couple of weeks training.
They are technicians apparently.

 

[Chuck]

In the UK, 'engineer' is a vague courtesy title that anybody can use.

The engineering institutions have been complaining about this since the 1970s to my personal knowledge and probably before then. Their view seems to be that only their members, i.e. CEng, should be allowed to use the title.

In contexts where it matters, you just have to use a more specific title, e.g. 'fitters', 'technicians', 'instrument makers', 'pattern makers', 'machinists', 'programmers', 'engineering graduates', 'chartered engineers', 'train driver', etc.