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Old June 9th 07, 10:11 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Matt Whiting wrote:

I absolutely agree that it takes an excellent electrical engineer to
design these systems! That was my point. And electrical engineer is an
engineer. A "software engineer" who has no engineering degree or
background is not an engineer.



Whatever... I've interviewed both CS and EE's. Some were excellent
engineers, some were **** poor the rest were average and I never found
those with an EE degree any smarter (ona average) that those with a CS
degree. Attitude counts a lot more with me than what flavor engineering
degree one has. But that's me.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.