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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by Waterluvian on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:33PM (#42979153)
I don’t know much about any of this but I know that the best engineers I’ve worked with all went to community college or nothing, and the worst engineers had PhDs.

But if the job was to invent some brand new algorithm and not to build a product and get it to market expeditiously, maybe that would be backwards. I dunno.

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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by lupire on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:01PM (#42979304)
Someone with "community college or nothing" is not an engineer, unless they drive a train. Are you referring to software developers?
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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by linkregister on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:17PM (#42979412)
In the United States, the term "Professional Engineer" is a legal term describing persons licensed by their state. [1]

The generic title "engineer" is not legally protected and may be applied to software developers or many other professions where scientific understanding or invention is applied. For example, software developers at Amazon and Microsoft are called "Software Development Engineers".

Most electrical and computer engineering graduates do not bother with getting PE licensure; instead this is a requirement for civil, mechanical, aeronautical, and related engineering graduates.

1. https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe

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