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gnuarm:

--- Quote from: LaserSteve on March 22, 2021, 11:36:09 pm ---My former employer designated me, a non-degreed engineer, as a "Senior Field Engineer" on the business card. 

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So you were an old farmer?   :-DD
nigelwright7557:

--- Quote from: Kerlin on March 17, 2021, 05:56:41 am ---
Your assuming that degree people have a good name in the Electronics industry, I would check on that.

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A degree is the start of your learning not the end.
While I just have City and Guilds in electronics I have 40 years experience in design.
And I still dont know it all or anywhere near it.
Always, something new coming out and another field to explore.
penfold:

--- Quote from: nigelwright7557 on March 23, 2021, 05:12:14 am ---
--- Quote from: Kerlin on March 17, 2021, 05:56:41 am ---
Your assuming that degree people have a good name in the Electronics industry, I would check on that.

--- End quote ---
A degree is the start of your learning not the end.
While I just have City and Guilds in electronics I have 40 years experience in design.
And I still dont know it all or anywhere near it.
Always, something new coming out and another field to explore.

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There are an awful lot of "engineers" who don't share quite that same attitude. In the UK at least I've encountered many companies who are simply stuck in the '90s with a "well, we've always done it like that" mindset who mostly out of ignorance see, for instance, EMC and safety as something that can only be dealt with by sticking-plaster solutions rather than something that can be designed in from the start.. and the very suggestion of agile project management as some mortal insult!

Equally, as much as a degree is only the beginning (and not even the best beginning for many of the best designer's I've worked with so I'm absolutely NOT siding with the "degrees only" camp), experience on its own counts for nothing unless there's some cycle of criticism-development-evaluation.
beanflying:
Several things here this STATE legislation also covers Engineers making tall buildings and Bridges, those playing with Steam Turbines etc. There is a legitimate need that only those qualified do that work and they be held to a standard. It is completely out of order to have self claiming Engineers doing this sort of work.

This is NOT about other countries and their laws or lack of and is not an exercise in bashing people without Degrees. As I mentioned earlier a lot of non Eng's run rings around 4 year Qualified Eng.

This Topic is actually about one State (Victoria) in Australia following Queensland as the first State to go down a similar path so it is not at this stage an Australia wide thing although it will likely head that way over the next few years.

If Electronic 'Designers' see they don't want in then they should be involved and make sure they are kept out and the way to do that is get involved in the process.
LaserSteve:
GNUARM mumbled:

"So you were an old Farmer"

I guess I need a name change at EEVBLOG to "Old Farmer", I actually like it... No mods, no, but I thought about it...

Steve
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