On 6/26/06, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
>
> Here comes also the question how you treat foreign degrees. Most degrees
> are not valid outside of a certain area. Like mine (German) is not valid
> neither in the USA nor in Brazil. So what does that mean when I'm in
> Brazil? I'm not an engineer? A Brazilian engineer can rightfully claim
> that, and I don't call myself an engineer here (nor in the USA). But I
> don't think I lost it all when I moved across the border... :)
>

A German Dipl-Eng is very well recognized here. It is equivalent to a
MSc or MEng here. I do not really think it is not recognized in USA.
It only matters when you go to the academia, where only the PhDs
from a few oversea universities are recognized.
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