<p>Has anyone here ever heard of the Degree of Engineer, or Engineer’s Degree? A few fairly prominent schools offer it. As far as I can tell, it requires about one year of work beyond a master’s degree, but few people end up earning it.</p>
<p>I would appreciate if someone familiar with this degree could write a little about it.</p>
<p>I know a little about it - there was a guy in my company who held one, but I only knew him in passing.</p>
<p>It is a very uncommon degree, essentially a “doctoral” equivalent of an M.Eng degree. The basic idea is to allow a non-research based terminal professional degree for those who would benefit from continued instruction but neither need nor want a research capability or requirement.</p>
<p>This shows why so few earn it - it provides the recipient with no real advantage over the masters, but at increased time and expense. The guy I know took it because he could not get approval for a PhD (due to the uncertainties and time required) but wanted an edge over his coworkers at promotion time. He was able to finish it up part time. The downside is that everytime someone hears about his degree he has to explain it all over again.</p>
<p>I do not recommend it, except in very unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard most of those schools which offer Engineers degrees do so more from historical reasons than anything else. I’ve heard it’s a bit more common of a degree in Europe, but don’t know much more beyond that.</p>