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No offense intended, but your university probably isn't competing for top engineers. Grad students and postdocs aren't professionals yet either. The sysadmin r
by rch 10y ago
No offense intended, but your university probably isn't competing for top engineers. Grad students and postdocs aren't professionals yet either.
The sysadmin role has traditionally been a focus in that environment (e.g. controlling access to cluster resources).
- jstimpfle 10y agoDefine "professional". And let me claim that "top engineers" are actually the prudent ones - which you didn't refute.
- rch 10y agoI think we agree on the prudence of professional engineers. The definition of 'professional' is up for debate, but I'd encourage people to weigh in on the following (to IEEE, not me): - an appropriate engineering education background (ABET/EAC)[1] - at least four years of engineering experience in your field and under the supervision of qualified engineers - passed two exams (the Fundamentals of Engineering [FE] exam, which is now a computer-based test available essentially year round, and the eight-hour PE exam) - kept current by as a minimum meeting your state's continuing education requirements. -- http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/careers/97473 http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/careers/97473 [1] I think it would be worthwhile to consider apprenticeships, equivalent to the 'law office study' path to attorneys' bar certification.