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As engineers in Canada you have a Ritual to Calling which is supposed to be similar to an oath to public safety above all. And to be a professional engineer yo
by boringg 5y ago
As engineers in Canada you have a Ritual to Calling which is supposed to be similar to an oath to public safety above all. And to be a professional engineer you have to go through a training period and a final test to be considered. I am mostly talking about physical engineers here (Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, etc)
That said - the term engineer (software engineer specifically) has been heavily diluted - same as data scientist - to the point of irrelevance or that it points to some basic proficiency of understanding and capability and not some level of mathematical knowledge. There are lots of exceptions and many people who are highly adept and capable but I wouldn't say that is an accurate portrayal of the entire class of title-holders.
- ghaff 5y ago> engineer (software engineer specifically) has been heavily diluted Oh, it goes way beyond that and has for decades. When I was in the oil business, you saw all manner of job titles with engineer on them like (drilling) mud engineer that people would joke were actually mud salesmen which they basically were. And the computer company I worked for for a long time used system engineer for a pre-sales role that supported the account reps.