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At one time there was a exam for the Principles and Practice of Engineering with the discipline of Software Engineering from NCEES. The same organization that h
by blown_gasket 4y ago
At one time there was a exam for the Principles and Practice of Engineering with the discipline of Software Engineering from NCEES. The same organization that has the tests for all of your proper engineering disciplines. The issue was that so few individuals took the exam that it was discontinued. Meaning that if you were to have taken the exam, passed, and gotten your license, you could have been a licensed Professional Engineer with a discipline of Software Engineering.
Software Engineering is still a program at some universities and is within the Engineering college.
Computer Science is a different program and is usually within the college of Technology.
If you would like a program that doesn't have the actual science aspects - mathematical reasoning, multiple proper-science courses, etc. You can enroll at a community college or career-tech center.
Even in the post software engineers were described as plumbers. So what is the insistence on going to a university and complaining about the requirements that are put in place where some individuals go for Masters and Doctorates. When you could enroll in a Software Development 2 year program and learn Java and JavaScript as pretty much the only courses. Calculus not required.
Write a tutorial. In my opinion everyone has the capability to write a tutorial if they get into university, it's the lack of interest in doing so. Look at your job, how many people actually document well? It's not because they can't it's because they have no interest to.
Business. That's another university program.
Art and Graphics. That's another university program.
- ThrowawayR2 4y ago> "At one time there was a exam for the Principles and Practice of Engineering with the discipline of Software Engineering from NCEES. ... The issue was that so few individuals took the exam that it was discontinued." No, no one took the PE exam for software engineering because it was effectively impossible. To become a PE, first the candidate has to pass one of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an engineer-in-training. Except there wasn't ever a software specific FE exam; the most relevant one is the EE/Comp. E. exam. Take a look at the list of topics: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Ele-CBT-specs.pdf https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Ele-CBT-specs.pdf. Most developers aren't going to pass that even with a CS degree. After that, the candidate needed 4-8 years of job experience while supervised by another licensed engineer. But, whoops, there are barely any software developers with a PE license, so who would they get to supervise them? Only then does the candidate get to take the PE exam for software engineering and become a licensed professional engineer. Frankly, the situation was so absurd that one has to suspect that NSPE/NCEES didn't want to certify software developers as PEs.