> There is no way a engineering board has time to scrap every website and every person and see if they call themselves an engineer or not.
They actually do! The startup I currently work at, once it got to a decent size, the BC PEng association reached out and said “your company is full of people not registered as Professional Engineers with the job title Engineer, change or we’ll sue.” No biggie, we changed the job titles to Software Developer, and everyone updated their LinkedIn, etc. The exact same thing happened at the last startup I worked at, too. They’re pretty thorough.
They don’t sue right away, they just ask first, and normally everyone just changes the title when asked - Engineer IS a protected title here, you do have to be a registered Professional Engineer to use it. This guy only got sued because he refused to change it.
They actually do! The startup I currently work at, once it got to a decent size, the BC PEng association reached out and said “your company is full of people not registered as Professional Engineers with the job title Engineer, change or we’ll sue.” No biggie, we changed the job titles to Software Developer, and everyone updated their LinkedIn, etc. The exact same thing happened at the last startup I worked at, too. They’re pretty thorough.
They don’t sue right away, they just ask first, and normally everyone just changes the title when asked - Engineer IS a protected title here, you do have to be a registered Professional Engineer to use it. This guy only got sued because he refused to change it.