Talk:Professional technologist

On 6 May 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Professional Technologist to Professional technologist. The result of the discussion was moved.

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Professional Technologist is not the same as engineer. I think the engineering associations will have an issue with statements like that.

I agree that an engineer is not a Professional Technologist.

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Professional Technologist may be available in Canada, but not all provinces. Even between the provinces that use this designation, the meaning doesn't translate well. That is why there is a wish by many to retain CET (Certified Engineering Technologist), as it does convey a consistant brand name across the country, denoting more professionalism than each province deciding what wo call themselves.

If you want to more align yourself with engineers, why not take the British position of refering to Technologists as Incorporated Engineers?

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That's a good idea. Maybe it will catch on if the boys club doesn't squash it. I have an Engineering Technology Diploma, and I will soon hold a Bachelors Degree in Technology (Canadian degree), I work for two engineering companies doing the job of an engineer in both, yet I cannot practice engineering? I'm much more capable than being an assistant to an engineer. I fix their mistakes just as much as they fix mine.

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I am a CET, and have a Bachelor of Technology as well. I will be staying with CET, as P.Tech varies from one juristiction to another. CET is consistant across the board, and is the same as the UK Incorporated Engineer. If we tried to use that term, P.Eng holders may get a bit litigious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.167.80.88 (talk) 14:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Has any progress been made on allowing Technologists the right to practice engineering? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.128.33.18 (talk) 18:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ASET is no longer a member of CCTT. This article should be amended to state that it is a former member. Techdude1 Aug 30th 2010

Scope creep

This article seems to have quite a bit of scope creep going on. Instead of explaining the title of Professional Technologist as it exists in Newfoundland, Quebec, and Alberta, it seems to be talking about any and all kinds of opportunities for technologists to grow their credentials. I'm going to come back later and clean it up, I think.SJ Zero (talk) 15:03, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've completely rewritten the page to reflect reality, and to better suit an encyclopedia. Many of the engineering technology pages seem to think they need to advocate for the entirety of engineering technology. We've got an engineering technologist page. We've got a fairly comprehensive Certified Engineering Technologist page. We've got pages for professional engineering. If any of these upgrade paths pass notability requirements, they can have pages too. Let's focus on just this designation on the page for this designation. SJ Zero (talk) 01:49, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the revert of the replacement I wrote, I don't think that's acceptable, because the previous page simply doesn't meet wikipedia standards. There are unsourced statements, and statements that are factually incorrect in 2014, some of it seems to count as original research, and the original had a large number of references to things that don't have anything to do with the Professional Technologist designation anywhere in Canada. If the original article is dramatically improved, I could accept a new version of the original, but it needs to be substantially improved. A mere revert doesn't address the problems. SJ Zero (talk) 18:35, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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