# Engineers and Iron Rings

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineers-and-iron-rings/278352>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 6, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineers-and-iron-rings/278352 "2004-12-06T13:10:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineers-and-iron-rings/278352/21 "2004-12-09T19:36:31Z")

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Plenty of the electrical engineers around here have them. I once found an engineer’s ring in my cubicle. I thought briefly about keeping it, but that would have been wrong, because I am only an electronics engineering _technologist_. It went to the front desk, where its owner eventually found it.

The two main differences between EEs and EE Technologists are three years of college instead of four years of university, and about $30 000 a year in pay.

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