[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: software engineer? -- Technicians don't understand what Engineers do

Kevin Hulse hulse_kevin at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 2 08:50:05 CDT 2004


Anyone that had to put up with statics and thermo
as a part of their undergrad degree should feel free
to call themselves an engineer regardless of what
their degree happens to be called.


--- Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:

> At 01:29 PM 7/30/04, you wrote:
> >From: Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com>
> > > Bryan,
> > > I agree with you about the overuse of the title
> Software Engineer.
> > > However, your reasons are way off the reality of
> what a Software
> > > Engineer really is.
> 
> 
> I fully agree the term Engineer has been overused.
> 
> The only people that should be called "Engineers"
> have at least a Bachelor 
> Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in an Engineering
> Discipline.  Calling 
> garbage collectors Sanitation Engineers, or
> programmers Software Engineers 
> is wrong.
> 
> You want to be called an Engineer, go to an
> Engineering School for 4-5 
> years and get a B.S.E. degree.
> 
> Kip 
> 
> 
> 
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