> I know engineers without a degree who pull $250k a year.
Call them specialists, experts, consultants, contractors, or whatever you want, but not engineers without an actual engineering degree.
Call them specialists, experts, consultants, contractors, or whatever you want, but not engineers without an actual engineering degree.
It goes further than that actually. The term 'engineer' is often legally-protected, and often a degree is a pre-requisite, but isn't the only one. This becomes important when e.g. you're building bridges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_eng...
for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered_Engineer_(UK)
Unless you are talking about 'engineer' in the same way some people talk about 'architect' as in software architect.