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Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by TAForObvReasons on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:36PM (#17093464)
This applies to technology as well: I want the people writing code that will be deployed in $CRITICAL_SITUATION to pass some baseline aptitude test set by US regulation, ideally with some ethics component. Unfortunately, no such thing exists in software and there's a surprising pushback.
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Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by ghaff on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:56PM (#17094352)
It sort of exists. P.E. Software engineering like most of the other engineering branches use. Signing off on designs that require regulatory approval often requires a PE. In my first job in mechanical design etc. it was understood that I would get this as soon as I could.

However my understanding is that almost no one gets this in software and it’s being discontinued.

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Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by sanderjd on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:23PM (#17096030)
In what country? I have heard that this is required in Canada, but I've never heard of it in the US.
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Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by ghaff on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:54AM (#17099023)
US. It's so uncommon though (in software engineering specifically) that they're apparently dropping it.
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