Because the skillset is not the same.
It is quite different to have spent 5 years doing nothing other than building up engineering knowledge, and just learning a few things to get the job done.
It is quite different to have spent 5 years doing nothing other than building up engineering knowledge, and just learning a few things to get the job done.
I'm always very weary of companies that tell me I'll earn more money because I have a PhD completely irrelevant to the job I'll be hired to do. It signals that they're valuing the wrong thing, and that doesn't make me want to work there.
Engineers are only those with an university degree from an university acknowledged to actually be teaching engineering.
Then if they want to actually make use of the title, get the credential, which yes requires an yearly contribution.
Finally, in any kind of project where human lives are at stake, the engineer signing for the project has to be validated as such.
I happen to think that our profession is no different from lawyers, doctors, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and so on.