NCEES tried a few years back and developed such a curriculum but there wasn't enough interest so they got rid of it. IIRC, something like a total of 6 people were certified as a software engineer in the last year it was available. I don't see required licensure for software engineers happening unless 1) it's driven by employers or 2) it's driven by regulators. I don't see #1 ever happening because it's asking the employers to give more leverage to their employees. I'd personally like to see #2, at least on certain safety critical applications.
Re:Are We Really Engineers? (2021)
by humanrebar on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:15PM
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If engineering is applied science with gatekeeping, I'm frankly not interested.
Some sort of specific liability in the legal code could make sense, though.
Re:Are We Really Engineers? (2021)
by eyelidlessness on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:42PM
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Isn't the gatekeeping standardized verifiability and liability? Those are sorely needed in a lot of software endeavors.
If not, then, at least in my mind, it seems difficult to pin down exactly how software engineering can occupy a space in the domain of modern engineering.