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Subject:Re: Definition of Engineer (was: What to do?) From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:47:51 -0800
David, the exam to get a PE as a mechanical engineer has questions about
electricity and chemistry on it (though not very many). All the PE exams
contain at least some material that's outside of their particular specialty,
and the EIT exam you have to take first has even more. Since experience
is permitted to take the place of education, someone who has spent a
number of years documenting engineering work and who has taken the time
to become knowledgeable about it could still pass the test, given enough
ambition and cramming. But the bigger question is, so TX is issuing licenses
to SW engineers. Is there any indication that any TX employers are actually
requiring the SW engineers they hire to have it?
> The State of Texas now license software engineers. And, if they come from
> computer science they are grandfathered in, in terms of being able to take
> the test, but the questions on the test require an engineering education,
> and not a software engineering education. So the computer science people are
> going to end up not getting licensed.
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