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Okay, my brain is telling me that they're called "Engineers" because originally they drove steam 'engines' thus, 'engine-eers', like the movie "Rocketeer"... he flew around with a rocket pack, therefor, 'rocket-eer', or like the Mickey Mouse Club 'mouse-ka-teers'. However, this issue just came up recently at my job (electric utility company) in another department. From what I was told, the Georgia Department of Labor won't legally let you call yourself (in resume's or job applications) or be titled on the job as an 'engineer' unless you have a college degree in some field of engineering. As a result, one of the employees who had been titled that, but didn't have a degree, was stripped of the title for what they said were 'legal reasons'. My assumption is that the company doesn't want to get sued by a consumer for having something go wrong that was planned or constructed by an 'engineer' who doesn't meet the GA DOL specifications of what an 'engineer' should be. I would guess someone who command/drives a locomotive, would legitimately be called an engineer because of the tradition and historical connotation behind the term. However, in the railroad industry today, do they use a different term or title for the same position or are they still titled as Engineers?
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