Defining a "Linux Engineer"

[Tom Curl]

When I was a little kid the only kind of engineers I knew of operated
the throttles and brakes on trains.

My uncle owned a company which repaired the electric motor on tugboats
and drawbridges. At some point I learned he was an electrical engineer.

Later I went to school to become a mechanical engineer and ended up
working for a computer company working on digital electronic circuits.
This was before microprocessors were invented.

So . . . What's an engineer? I'll be interested to find out.

Tom




 On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 20:20 +0100, Gescape wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 21:40 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> > Once, long ago--actually, on Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 08:50:17PM CDT--mark (m.roth at 5-cent.us) said:
> > > Gads, but the word "engineer" is horribly overused.
> > 
> > True.
> > 
> > > Fun facts:  Calling yourself an engineer while not being a licensed
> > > professional engineer is potentially illegal, as well as can get you in
> > > deep kim che for misrepresentation.
> > 
> > Depends on what you're using it as.  If you're trying to get a position
> > that requires a PE, maybe.  Otherwise, I doubt it.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > 	Dave Ihnat
> > 	ignatz at dminet.com
> > 
> Agree. I recently passed RHCE. Does it make me an engineer? Hmm... I
> believe it depends on the point of view. Reality is it does not matter
> what's on a paper. What matters really is if you can do your job really
> well so the others can say "He/she really knows how to do/fix it."
> I can master one technology and has no clue about the other. Am I an
> engineer or not? I can pass the exam and forget most of it in 6 months.
> Will I be still an engineer? ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Grzeg
>