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Advanced diploma electronics at TAFE (kinda want Dave to answer this question)
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on January 23, 2019, 07:20:04 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on January 23, 2019, 06:36:39 am ---I missed that the said just "engineer". My point still stands though, I don't call myself a fitness instructor, and given that I only do fitness as a hobby, at best I'm a "fitness hobbyist" or "fitness amateur" despite being qualified. I'd make the same argument for "engineer". Amateur engineers have always called themselves hobbyists.
If I stopped doing engineering as a living or a hobby, I'd call myself a "former engineer" at best.
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I understand where you're coming from. I'm probably looking more at the term in the etymological sense, with it originally meaning "cleverly devising". I guess that's trade versus activity.
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I've never really heard many electronics hobbyists call themselves an engineer, it just doesn't seem to be a thing. Unlike a person who plays the violin I can imagine them calling themselves a "violinist".
Many qualified software engineers would call themselves a programmer, but I've never really heard a hobbyist programmer call themselves a software engineer?
The term engineer seems to quite vocationally oriented.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: mrpackethead on January 23, 2019, 07:33:43 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on January 23, 2019, 06:36:39 am ---If I stopped doing engineering as a living or a hobby, I'd call myself a "former engineer" at best.
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Is one of the primary activitys of an engineer to RANT?
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"Inform" ;D
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: CuteNotGate on January 23, 2019, 06:36:36 am ---So TAFE is the way to go then. But there are more then 1 advanced diploma in electronics though https://www.tafensw.edu.au/courses/electrotechnology-courses
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You want to Electronics one:
https://www.tafensw.edu.au/course/-/c/c/UEE61711-01/Advanced-Diploma-of-Engineering-Technology-Electronics
mrpackethead:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on January 23, 2019, 07:50:40 am ---I've never really heard many electronics hobbyists call themselves an engineer, it just doesn't seem to be a thing. Unlike a person who plays the violin I can imagine them calling themselves a "violinist".
Many qualified software engineers would call themselves a programmer, but I've never really heard a hobbyist programmer call themselves a software engineer?
The term engineer seems to quite vocationally oriented.
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Model Train Engineers. They most def think they are engineers. and nobody is paying.
StreuB1:
--- Quote from: mrpackethead on January 23, 2019, 07:33:43 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on January 23, 2019, 06:36:39 am ---If I stopped doing engineering as a living or a hobby, I'd call myself a "former engineer" at best.
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Is one of the primary activitys of an engineer to RANT?
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YES!!! ;D ;D ;D
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