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As someone that's gotten their degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering I can whole-heartedly agree that this extends to even most engineering degrees; it's
by jlangemeier 7y ago
As someone that's gotten their degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering I can whole-heartedly agree that this extends to even most engineering degrees; it's why we have EIT & PE grades, and the PE needs to sign off on anything that the company could get sued over.
The PE is essentially the safety valve that has both the education (usually also needs a minimum of a Masters Degree) and the experience (at least 5 years in industry) to say "this design isn't hot garbage." And even with that safety valve in place we get unmitigated disasters like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge or the Challenger explosion - which coincidentally are case studies in almost every engineering ethics class and at least one of our design classes at the undergraduate level. And that's just covering the big disasters, there's hundreds of thousands of projects out there that are also held together with duct-tape and bailing twine that passed a PE's stamp of approval.
Working for the DoD I saw all sorts of hacks from the engineering department to get custom hardware working to replace 60 year old CoTs products that have been out of production for 30 years but are necessary for things like missile and torpedo guidance.