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Yeah you can call yourself an engineer in normal conversation.

The line is testifying in open court or advertising or performing engineering as a service where the state engineering boards might get involved.

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Sometimes. People who do a lot of court work do often have PEs. But I've co-written an expert witness report for a large software-related trial and neither myself nor my coauthor had a PE (nor, indeed, a CS degree).

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