@nicdex

Strict about what? If by ETS you mean École de technologie supérieure, they can insist on any credentials they want for instructors they hire. They cannot impose any kind of control on someone tutoring (outside the school's control) a subject that is part of their engineering curriculum, or someone tutoring one of their students in anything else.

If by "strict" you just mean that whatever professional body in Quebec gets to regulate the P. Eng. credential tries to stomp anyone using the word "engineer" for anything they do, that's common, and absolutely legally baseless. They all do it; I have a nice legal nastygram in my files from APEGS, who controls the P. Eng. designation in Saskatchewan, claiming I was in violation because my resume included the word "engineer" in job titles and I wasn't a member in good standing.

It was garbage, a bully ploy. I sent back a letter to their lawyer pointing to the actual legal precedent that showed they absolutely did not have the power they claimed to have, and told them to go pound sand. If one of these orgs pesters you about just using the word "engineer", rather than falsely claiming to have a P. Eng. designation (explicitly, or implicitly by offering to do work that requires that credential), you should tell them where to get off.

#bully #professional #racket #engineer #PEng #ProfessionalEngineer

Because someone asked about me not being a PE (state-licensed Professional Engineer):

As an independent contractor, I have to be very clear not to advertise my services as an "engineer", because many (if not most or all) states require that those advertising services as an "engineer" have a PE license.

When working as an employee (not as an independent contractor), my employers generally include "engineer" in my job title, and the states grant them that right.

About 99% of working engineers today aren't PEs; they are most common among civil engineers, who work to assure the safety of our roads, bridges, dams, etc.

#ProfessionalEngineer