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George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com> Tue, 20 September 2005 15:23 UTC

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> Unfortunately, the English term can carry either of these meanings,
> depending largely on context.  It is applied to people who drive
> trains (because they operate an "engine", to people who provide
> technical support, and also to people who design complex electrical or
> mechanical systems or structures.  You have to know from context which
> is which.

It's my (non-authoritative) understanding that the term engineer
originally meant someone who built engines (think seize engines, etc).  

When locomotive were first invented they were not very reliable so the
guy who drove them was a kind of 'field support engineer' and the name
engineer stuck.

...George

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