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As I noted in another comment, a "proper PE type thing" exists for Software Engineering. In fact, it's an actual PE exam since 2013. It's probably higher level
by lfowles 10y ago
As I noted in another comment, a "proper PE type thing" exists for Software Engineering. In fact, it's an actual PE exam since 2013. It's probably higher level than you had in mind though, if you were expecting a focus more on algorithms than software lifecycle?
Software engineering topics:
http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SWE-Apr-2013.pdf http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SWE-Apr-2013.pdf
Electrical Engineering -> Computer Engineering topics:
http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PE-Ele-Computer-Apr-2009-1.pdf http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PE-Ele-Computer-...
- RandomOpinion 10y agoNot all states offer the PE software engineering exam; Califorina and Washington, for example, do not. Moreover, the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, which is a prerequisite for becoming a PE contains topics most practicing programmers would never have encountered and the rest would barely remember if they had. (Thermodynamics? Differential equations? Really?) I'd say that either the ACM or IEEE Computer Society needs to develop an equivalent certification process and lobby to have states adopt it for licensure.