A professional engineer in my book would be someone with a chartership. An internationally recognised qualification. Something which I don't have atm. I'm perfectly happy to admit that I'm an engineer in training.

Granted the boundaries would be debated in parliament and by appropriate bodies but this e-petition if it went through would hopefully at least lead to a discussion on whether having virgin send someone to fit a box to your tv is actually an engineer.

I believe that Germany has a system where the term engineer is protected. I'd be interested if anyone had knowledge on their system.