What is an engineer Hello, I am studying in a school of engineering. When I speak about me, my friends often ask what an engineer is in fact. I am not satisfied of my answer. For me, an engineer is more a diplom as a job. I can't find a similarity between all the engineers in France, what are they in common? It is said that an engineer is a manager, a leader in a team. That is correct in industrial sector but not in informatics. Someone told me that an enginneer is versatile but there are specialist school of engineering. On the whole, it occurs that the problem comes from the formulation of the question. Engineer is a diplom, after that you are an enginner is a sector, or a engineer-manager. In any case you're not just an enginner. To illustrate this idee, we can draw the parallele with the Ph.D. it depend on the specialisation. A physician idoesn't look like a researcher in quantic physics. To conclude it is strange to say" i want to be an engineer" because it is not a concrete job but a diplom