a person who made a mistake when they were young and did not obtain an MBA in business or marketing!!Combo said:A guy who programs PLC's, drives, HMI's, scada's...
And is not an engineer.
But a Bachelor.
WHat is he... ?
Not a project engineer !!
An Automation Programmer ?
A Programmer ?
A PLC programmer ?
bkottaras said:a person who made a mistake when they were young and did not obtain an MBA in business or marketing!!
bkottaras said:a person who made a mistake when they were young and did not obtain an MBA in business or marketing!!
I did that, and I slapped myself back!!!Alaric said:If I could only go back and slap my 22 year old self....
ivo.maenen said:One of my friends from long time ago had only his 'electro-mechanics' (A2-you know what i'm talking about) untill 18 years. One of his jobs was for Mitsubushi in Holland: writing the instructions about how people should clean their machines. I saw his title for a presentation: cleaning engineer.
Shakespear said: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
I would say: engineer is a title of education, not the title of a job.
Paulus said:Hello Combo,
Just my take on it...
Although at the time, not qualified by any particular piece of paper, the company that I was employed at as a controls designer for their machines and systems, my business cards had the title "Automation Engineer". Later, when I was solely responsible for writing PLC software (and commissioning of course), the company gave me the title of "Automation Software Engineer".
The term engineer is always quite emotive - more so Stateside and mainland Europe than here in the UK.
It seems that over here, if you "can do", then "you are".
Having said that, I have been involved in Controls for some (gulp) 30 years now!
Alaric said:If I could only go back and slap my 22 year old self....