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Why should an engineering degree be any sort of requirement? The best programmers I can think of (Knuth, Ritchie, and Stallman) don't have them and I've met ple
by AlotOfReading 7y ago
Why should an engineering degree be any sort of requirement? The best programmers I can think of (Knuth, Ritchie, and Stallman) don't have them and I've met plenty of competent developers who didn't either.
- pjmlp 7y agoThey surely have a degree in some form of enginnering and are far beyond those that call themselves engineer without having put a foot into an university. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie#Personal_life_and_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie#Personal_life_a... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Harvard_University_and_MIT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Harvard_Unive...
- AlotOfReading 7y agoThey all have degrees in STEM, but not in any "engineering" (i.e. ABET approved) program. It's also worth noting that having a university degree is not a requirement to be a licensed engineer in many places, including California.
- pjmlp 7y agoSTEM is part of engineering, that is what that E is about. Being an "engineer" without a valid university degree in engineering was my whole point.
- pwinnski 7y agoThat's not how acronyms work. Engineering is the E in STEM, not the other way around. STEM also includes Science, Technology, and Math, none of which are Engineering.
- pjmlp 7y agoThey are on this side of pound. The large majority of STEM university degrees have engineering in the title and are overseen by the Engineering Order as proper degrees.