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I've yet to see someone complain that software engineers don't build engines and are therefore bad at their jobs. Indeed, that'd be a silly argument. Also, you
by throwawayjava 9y ago
I've yet to see someone complain that software engineers don't build engines and are therefore bad at their jobs. Indeed, that'd be a silly argument.
Also, you've completely ignored my first point above. Even if we accept that teaching is the primary responsibility of a "Professor", it does not follow that this teaching manifests primarily as classroom teaching. Advising is teaching, and is the primary form of teaching undertaken by professors at certain research-intensive universities.
Incidentally, there are job titles that describe classroom teachers at research universities -- "instructor" or "teaching professor". The author of this post was not an "instructor" or a "teaching professor". He was an assistant and then associate professor. Classroom teaching was not a majority component of his job.
Luckily for every software engineer out there, historical cruft in the names of job titles is a bad criteria for evaluating job performance.
- monksy 9y agoI don't think anyone would consider an software engineer to be someone who works on engines. They engineer software solutions. (Designing, developing, gathering requirements, and insure correctness)
- throwawayjava 9y agoTo quote you, >> It's the title of the job: Engineer. From the dictionary: "Engineer: a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines" Hopefully you see the point I'm making? Just because you think a job title means something, and just because that's an accurate historical meaning, doesn't mean that the job title retains the same meaning today.
- monksy 9y agoI did say software engineer. It would be equally absurd to claim that a civic engineer or chemical engineer would be responsible for building an engine.
- throwawayjava 9y ago> It would be equally absurd Yes, that was my point. Your argument -- that a professor should be expected teach in classrooms a lot because they're called a professor -- is absurd :-)