[LINK] The Register: Canadian MCSEs aren't engineers...

Chirgwin, Richard Richard.Chirgwin@informa.com.au
Tue Nov 12 22:54:23 EST 2002


http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/28040.html

The professional engineers' association in Canada is dismayed that Microsoft
Certified System Engineers (MCSEs) are calling themselves "engineers".
Microsoft agreed to discourage the use of the term among MCSEs last year,
but changed its mind in the summer. 

The decision has angered the CCPE (Canadian Council of Professional
Engineers), which is rallying holders of a P.Eng qualification to rally
against the bogus boffins. In Canada only licensed professionals can call
themselves engineers, who must be P.Engs, a trade qualification administered
by the regional territories. Non-P.Engs attempting to pass themselves off as
engineers have even been fined. 
...

RC


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