A licensed engineer can now be someone who never dared to take or could not pass college freshman engineering physics. Those are the courses where you have to understand how simple mechanical systems work, you learn to think straight about such problems, and if you don’t learn to do that you don’t pass. Sad. So not only was the profession harmed, arguably the public was harmed as well. That could matter if we have a big infrastructure spend coming up, and the projects will need to be signed off by licensed engineers.
Engineering technician here, associates degree. There’s lots of us working along side of engineers at my job. Sometimes we do similar tasks but there’s a clear divide.
I don’t think there’s much chance of technicians replacing engineers. We both have our place and our specialties. In the end isn’t it ultimately up to the company that hires employees to decide who they would like to hire and who is capable of doing the work? The market itself usually adjusts to what is needed.
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