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CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

The Reference Manual Rate for Hiring Professional Engineering Services (El Manual de Referencia de Tarifas para la Contratación de Servicios Profesionales de Ingeniería), hasdeveloped a classification in several tiers, which is determined by a number of responsibilities assumed by the Engineer to their knowledge and experience in the implementation of a work or a projectdifferent levels. In wages are not including social benefits of Law, and are reference for engineers working on a project or work of engineering, wages are increasing according to the level ofresponsibility.
It also defines the elements and scope of work related to: preparation of preliminary, conceptual engineering, feasibility studies, basic engineering, projects, detailed engineering,technical management, supervision, counseling, consulting, expert opinions and estimates of Engineering. Each of the services must be regarded as an independent work of others, and therefore, it should beunderstood that the percentages and recommended rates for each are specific to the work referred to.
Sometimes the cultural level makes us believe that we are more or less than other countries. Thereshouldn’t be any difference between careers like engineering cause its supposed to be the same vocational training, for example an industrial engineer from south America than one of Europe should beconsidered with the same skills and knowledge , but the reality is that there is a difference as a result of many cultural factors. One of them is the educational level, somehow the countries that areconsidered as a world leaders have develop an educational system that prepare in a better way the people to become a complete professional and designers of many projects that are considered hard tosuccess, in this educational factor the reality of Colombia is a little bit different because here we are used to forming professionals to go to work for somebody without any initiative to create our...