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engineer	has definition A person who performs engineering (in contrast to scientist). The term engineer is legally reserved, in many jurisdictions, for those who have obtained engineering education and experience, and perform engineering within a company or else have been granted a license, or some other form of certification, to offer engineering services to the public
	designs artefacts following well accepted practices which normally involve the application of science, mathematics and economics
	did not have to be licensed before the 1940's in most jurisdictions
	has role to put knowledge to use in innovative ways to solve problems
	is a subtopic of 1.3 - Software Engineering as a Branch of the Engineering Profession
	is a kind of person
	must adhere to a code of ethics
	must be licensed in most countries in order to legally perform consulting or self-employed work where you call yourself an 'engineer'
	must have sufficient engineering education and experience to be licensed
	must take personal responsibility for work
	should apply well-understood principles
	should reuse established designs
	understands that omitting design documentation or documenting a design after it is complete is unacceptable, leads to serious mistakes, and makes planning for construction impossible

Kinds of engineer :

• Chartered Engineer (3 facts) - A term used in the United Kingdom, and certain other jurisdictions, that is equivalent to professional engineer
• professional engineer (3 facts) - A person who has been issued a license, by some jurisdiction, to perform engineering
• software engineer (1 kind, 93 facts) - A person who has education in, and experience performing software engineering; an engineer who specializes in software