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Meh. I don't care. I'm a mechanical engineer by education. While I've used it in many jobs, none in a way that requires certification.
In the US, certification is needed in civil engineering and only small subsets of mechanical and electrical engineering. I've worked with many engineers who don't even have a university degree in engineering. I'm not precious about other people calling themselves engineers.
Except for that stretch of time when hotels were trying to hire janitors as "custodial engineers" and offering like $10/hr. Eff that noise. That made an already deteriorating job search experience on LinkedIn worthless.
Yeah I was gonna ask, whether certification/government regulations are required for all engineering disciplines. I graduated with a CS degree and work as a software engineer now. I have family members who studied different engineering disciplines (industrial, civil, mechanical, etc), and only 1 of them ever needed certification (civil engineer). What makes one more "engineering" than others?