The term engineer is usually denoted at the end of many job titles. Most, although it sounds impressive, seem to be a gross misapplication of that term backwards.
This begs the interesting question, “when can you actually call yourself an engineer?”
In most cases, the answer is quite simple. For disciplines such as construction, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering, no one would doubt the fact that a practitioner is really an engineer.
But what about something like software or sound engineering?
This is actually a topic that is hotly debated and that you may have already experienced yourself.
On one side of the argument are “qualifying purists” who insist that a “real” engineer is only someone who has an official degree and may or may not be a formal member of an engineering professional body such as the Royal Academy of Engineering.
A computer network is a set of computers that are connected together so that they can share information. The earliest examples of computer networks are from the 1960s, but they have come a long way in the half-century since then.
On the other side of the argument are those who believe that as long as you create or build something, you have the right to use the term engineer to describe what you do.
This is basically an interesting and quasi-philosophical discussion, to which it is not easy to definitively answer. But we are sure you will have your own opinion on this.