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"John Theune" wrote in message
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I have to disagree with your point of view that Software Engineering is
not engineering . I have both a BSCS and a MSCS and have worked at both
Fortune 5 companies and well as much smaller organizations. While, just
like in other engineering fields, it's possible not to follow a rigorous
development process, I have seen and worked within a process that had all
the hallmarks of a engineering process in other fields. That you have not
seen it does not mean it does not exist.
As part of this thread I started looking in to the licensing of Engineers
and looking at the national standards I saw that there is no licensing of
the software engineering field. The closest I could find was Electrical
and Computer Systems but that was 70 directed to the electrical aspects of
designing the hardware with a small ( 30%) amount devoted to software
itself. It would seem that NCEES thinks software is important enough to
test for but not to license as a separate category. Perhaps this will
change but given that this board equates surveying with engineering make
me question just how relevant they are.
Many years ago, a guy I worked with, who was a software geek, had a cartoon
on the wall of his cubicle that showed a fellow walking out of a bay (of
cubes) and saying over his shoulder, "I'll go upstairs and see what they
want; the rest of you start coding!".
I've seen certified engineers work in much the same fashion, particularly on
state and federal pork-barrel projects.
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Matt Barrow
Performace Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY
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