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Some people want software engineering to be like other engineering disciplines where a PE license and/or union membership is mandatory to practice the trade.
by umvi 5y ago
Some people want software engineering to be like other engineering disciplines where a PE license and/or union membership is mandatory to practice the trade.
- bob1029 5y agoI think you find most of those people do not have any intentions of bringing meaningful value to the engineering disciplines. It's just a business opportunity to them.
- kabdib 5y agoIn the 1980s there was a proposal in the California legislature to license software engineers. They basically took an EE-related test (developed by the IEEE, little surprise) and stirred some software in there. I don't remember what software methodology flavor-of-the-month they rubberstamped, but I assure you that it was forgettable. It was a bare-faced, rent-seeking money grab from some entrenched licensing board. I mean, I've used Ohm's Law in my software career, and I've made smoke come out of things on a professional basis. But it's hardly necessary for a security engineer to know about impedance matching.
- eru 5y agoYes, those wishes are what I was referring to. Not sure why you are being downvoted.