Why are engineers overseas able to protect their title?
In most of Europe professional engineers hold a title ‘ingenier’, or similar. The word is not defined in the same way as ‘engineer’ and may therefore be protected, legally. Commonwealth, and ex-commonwealth countries like Australia and the USA suffer the same problems as the UK. UK enginers may register as European Engineers, and adopt the prefix title EurIng (which is recognised as a formal title which may be used on official documentation, including passports), and 15,000 registrants haven chosen to do this.
