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I have 2 acquaintances, one is a Graphic Designer, the other is an Electrical Engineer who models and designs power grid controls. The Graphic Designer stated
by torginus 5y ago
I have 2 acquaintances, one is a Graphic Designer, the other is an Electrical Engineer who models and designs power grid controls.
The Graphic Designer stated out her career designing advertising material and magazine layouts and websites in Photoshop. Nowadays she has transitioned to using CSS/HTML directly, and then to React.
The other guys core competency is power distribution systems and modelling distributed control systems. He started using Matlab to help with his calculations, and develop computer models. The company he works for pivoted to selling grid modelling software, so he rewrote the models he did in Java.
Nowadays if you went on LinkedIn, both would have the title "Software Engineer". Both write code, but I'd argue that their core competencies are still entirely different.
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoNot disagreeing but in a lot of jurisdictions the Graphic Designer would not be able to use the Engineer title.
- torginus 5y agoI mean, she is a frontend dev by all accounts - in most places, sadly, engineer is not a protected title - and colloquially people refer to frontend people as software engineers.