Question: Does it take a long time to become an engineer

Alan Diaz answered on 23 Mar 2021:

According to a university, it takes your 2-5 years to become an “official” engineer. But an engineer is someone that solves problems that can be modeled/represented in an abstract manner (i.e., with mathematics or diagrams) and makes decisions based (for the most part) in logic. If you’re already thinking analytically, you could potentially be an engineer in the making!
As with everything else, to become a good engineer it can take several years of practice. By practice I mean that you do that regularly (most days a week). For example, if you want to become good at playing guitar or cooking you would need several years of “practice” to feel comfortable in saying “I know how to play a guitar” or “I know how to cook”; if you play the same songs or cook the same dishes over and over again, then you might become very good at doing those, but that doesn’t mean that you’re a guitarist or a chef!. With engineering it is slightly similar, if you regularly practice thinking analytically, and study and understand how to solve a variety of “engineering” problems, over time you become good at it!