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From that point on the typical ways to be allowed to use the job title engineer were to obtain the academic title of a diploma engineer ''Diplom-Ingenieur'' (abbreviated ''Dipl.-Ing.'') or doctor engineer (Phd, ''Dr.-Ing.'') from an academic institutions, or to obtain a graduated engineer title (''Ingenieur (grad.)'') from an engineering school or engineering academy. Earlier graduates from engineering schools or academies could continue to use the title or in some cases could change their title to ''Ingenieur (grad.)''. Mining schools were granting some engineer titles, too.

In the 1970th1970s German converted its engineering schools and academies into universities of applied sciences and founded new such universities. With this change the ''Ingenieur (grad.)'' was no longer granted. Instead universities of applied sciences awarded the academic title of diploma engineer ''Diplom-Ingenieur'', too. Over time, and depending on the actual state of the infighting between universities and universities of applied sciences, universities of applied sciences granted the title with a suffix ''Diplom-Ingenieur (FH)''.

Around the same time the federal states (''Bundesländer'') established their own engineer laws, because in Germany education is a matter of regulation for the federal states, not the federal government. These laws are all very similar and describe who is allowed to use the job title of an engineer.