Talk:Engineer/Archives/2018

File:Kitty Joyner - Electrical Engineer - GPN-2000-001933.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Kitty Joyner - Electrical Engineer - GPN-2000-001933.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 11, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-02-11. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 14:30, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Picture of the day

Kitty Joyner (1916–1993) was an American electrical engineer with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and then the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She was hired in 1939 as the organization's first woman engineer, shortly after she had become the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia's engineering program.Photograph: NACA

Engineer: "people" to "professionals".

I tried to change engineers from "People" to "professionals", as is indicated in the first paragraph by the requirement of 4 to 6 years in training and passing of board exams. The "Physician" page uses similar vocabulary. This page is talking about licensed professional engineers that have specialized. Someone who calls themselves an engineer without licensure is not recognized as an engineer in many jurisdictions. The type of occupation is listed as "Profession" underneath the picture. I've thus reverted the change back from what Engineeringworld2 put.