Dealing with coworkers with engineering title but no degree! 4

[LONDONDERRY]

Some days I just want to scream. I so sick companies giving engineer titles to people that don't even have a engineering degree or there last job was 5 years at Wal-Mart and you have to deal with their incompetence of not knowing the basis of their job
For example:
As a mechanical engineer, I have to deal with a small army of people that are so-called "configuration engineer" but none of them have any sort of engineering back ground and this is their first gig in high tech. Some of these so called "engineers" last jobs where school bus driver, grocery store clerk, store manager. They all have no concept of what an engineering BOM or assembly drawing is and they make a disaster of the engineering documentation. I asked one of them what experience they have with ANSI ASME and their response was.. "what's that?" I MEAN COME ON!!
It got so bad, that I have to tell my manager, that unless CE follow my lead on proper documentation practices I'll given them nothing.

I've worked with some old timers ( 1-2 in my life) they didn't have the engineering title, but came from machine shops, but they really knew their stuff

 

[AELLC]

I was first registered in NM, and there was no SE classification there. So my CE stamp was good for high-rise. I recall doing all ther structural problems on the test but then had to do one or 2 something of another dicispline...so I picked Geotechnical.

All along I had zero, absolutely zero, knowledge of any actual real-life civil engineering. After a few years I also forgot everything civil I learned in University, all that pipe network stuff and hydraulic jumps and channel flow.

 

[beej67]

I call myself a hydrologist since that's the majority of what I do, but I'm not registered as a hydrologist, I'm registered as a PE. Hope that doesn't anger any hydrologists..

Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East -

http://www.campbellcivil.com

 

[AELLC]

Just to beat this topic to death a bit more,

A Civil Engineer PE can design low-rise, low seismic structural projects in states that have a Structural Engineer classification.

If he announces that he is the Structural Engineer for the High School structure he designed, then that is correct and legal. After all, he wasn't the Civil Engineer for that project, who is likely to be an entirely different design team.