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I just checked my diploma, it says my title is 'Engineer' (studied computer science).
by Avalaxy 13y ago
I just checked my diploma, it says my title is 'Engineer' (studied computer science).
- SethMurphy 13y agoI have to agree strongly with this. It's like a professional trainer calling themselves a professor just because they teach. You are an engineer if your diploma says so. It is an earned title, not a job description. I say this as a CS dropout that never calls myself an engineer.
- USNetizen 13y agoEngineering is about process, not about degrees. My CS degree did not at ALL prepare me to be a software engineer. It taught be to be a programmer. Engineering is more about the process than the technology. CS teaches theory and technology.
- SethMurphy 13y ago100% agrees, I didn't say I didn't do engineering, I just don't call myself an engineer. Ironically, I do call myself a programmer though, and I don't need a degree to do that. The state of CS degrees is a whole other topic, which from the sound of it we agree upon so far. Maybe I just can't call myself a scientist ;)
- polemic 13y agoThis doesn't contribute anything. You're missing the important question "what is engineering?". Saying it's just "whatever engineers do" is meaningless.
- Avalaxy 13y agoWikipedia: "Engineering is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to design, build, and maintain structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. It may encompass using insights to conceive, model and scale an appropriate solution to a problem or objective. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of technology and types of application." Application of scientific/practical knowledge: check. Design, build and maintain systems/processes, check. Using insights to conceive, model and scale a solution to a problem, check. Sorry, but this is just a nonsense discussion imho. Stop devaluating your own grade.
- polemic 13y agoI only objected to you defining engineering as "what an engineer does". It does not devalue the profession to challenge that assertion.