What is a transportation engineer?
 

I saw somewhere, a man from Scotland list himself as a transportation engineer. <BR><BR>What exactly is a transportation engineer?<BR><BR>Is this like Ed Norton on the Honeymooners referring to himself as an underground engineer? In other words, is this man a bus driver?

Are you serious? <BR><BR>This is a real degree, it has to do with the design and operations of transportation systems. He is no doubt considerably more educated than you are. At my graduate alma mater, UCLA, that degree was within the engineering school, I believe, perhaps within civil engineering or environmental engineering dept, they had an entire institute as I recall. Do you think transportation systems just happen? <BR>

Christina<BR><BR>But in Scotland is this a term used by graduates or is it a common designation by blue collar workers? That's what the man was asking.<BR><BR>Chill......

Christina<BR><BR>When you over react to a simple question you give away more information about yourself than anything else. <BR>You are insecure, obviously, about your title, education or postion. Probably one and the same.<BR><BR>

When I was in Scotland 3 years ago the tour driver did refer to himself as a "tansportation engineer". We all laughed, the guy was funny, but maybe it is a common term.

Christina,<BR><BR>If you graduated from UCLA, I hope English, sentence structure and punctuation, was not your major.<BR><BR>Ms. Betsy

I have a friend who is an mechanical engineer in Northern Ireland. Although he has a master's degree, his in-laws seem to think he works fixing gates.<BR><BR>Anthony--it really varies over there. Some manual labors are referred to as engineers, just like cooks are there are called chefs. But then professional engineers are also called engineers, and chefs are called chefs. It's confusing, so just pour yourself a drink, and it will all work itself out.

Well I can see you're absolutely dying for me to reply to this one...almost 2 hours since you posted this, you must be getting worried I'd missed it.<BR><BR>As sad as it is, you've obviously been trawling previous threads in an attempt to find more out about me for some reason known only to you. I applaud you.<BR><BR>Go ahead, give it your best shot my friend.

Anthony-I think you've probably found out all you really need to know about Stellarossa from his previous posts. I know I have.

But I'll tell you that the expression "engineer" here in the UK normally belongs to a university graduate. And Tony is one

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