What kind of engineer should you be

[Aerith's Knight]

Physics is not engineering, AK, hence its exclusion.

Then why do I get to put Ing. (Eng. or Engineer in English) before my name after my BSc in Physics?

And to clarify, a BSc doesn't just give you lectures in physics. I was taught Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Programming and Mechanical Engineering. Because you need all of them to actually build an experiment.

Well, I'm going to chalk it up to international standards. In the US you have to take the FE and PE exams (fundamental of engineering, professional engineering) before you can call yourself Engineer.

That sounds strange, as engineering is such an enormously wide concept, how could you on earth make a standartized exam for it. It's not like a Mechanical Engineer knows the same as a Biomechanical Engineer. Unless that exam is so basic (skill-wise) that they both know it already.

But I've had exams in EE, ME, and the such, so perhaps it was just inserted into my curriculum.

But you've made me curious, how do you define the rest of the sciences (Physics, math, chem majors) if not as Engineer?

Scientists.

More on the FE: Fundamentals Exams - NCEES

It's definitely not a basic test. My senior friends have been drilling away at review sessions and packets. Some of the stuff they haven't even thought about since freshman year xD Anyways, eight hours of ._. Supposedly they pass the top 40-60%, regardless of how they score, so I plan to take it with a bunch of dunderheads :}

Ah, as such. Well, I guess such a term would be more correct for research scholars (that was what I was called on my visa application form last time).

The FE almost sounds like a bar exam for lawyers. Sounds awful. But then again, in the final 6 months I'm in now, I have to work on a research project, such as can be found in business and such, to see if I measure up to work in a research enviroment. Maybe it's the exam form of that, a combination of everything you've learned.