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He's not an engineer and likely can't prove it. In the US you need state certification to be qualified as an engineer.
by bnolsen 10y ago
He's not an engineer and likely can't prove it. In the US you need state certification to be qualified as an engineer.
- SamReidHughes 10y agoYou don't need some certification to be an engineer, all you need is to do some engineering.
- gumby 10y agoYou need state certification to be a PE or licensed engineer, but in the US very few engineers bother to get this qualification. Even where it is required, usually the PE has to sign off (and take responsibility for!) the work of others. And while PE has certain advantages, like all such things it can also be a racket. I remember when I was an undergrad, MIT planned to change its ME (course 2) requirements. ASME said, "oh no you don't; if you don't require all the courses we say the MIT degree won't qualify on its own for PE licensure." And the Institute said "OK." I was not course 2 but I never heard that MIT's degree was ever considered inadequate for PE.
- joatmon-snoo 10y agoDid you read the article? It's not about being a PE, it's about being an actual software engineer and getting told to "check if a binary search tree is balanced" to prove it.