Re: Software Engineers

this has been debated in the ASME forum (both in printed journal and the web). I agree, if you you dont have the license to practice then legally youre not an engineer - by operation of the law. Call yourself by any other title 'cep an engineer. For me Its not the title but rather the competence that counts. This is what deliver the homerun.

Hey Passing the board does not also gurantee the safetyof the public.

• In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Bowers" <pbowers@p...> wrote:
  > This topic should spark some lively discussion over at Slashdot
  (arguably
  > the world's largest web forum for programmers and computer geeks).
  Here is
  > the URL for the comments page:
  >
  > <a href="http://makeashorterlink.com/?W5A924504">http://makeashorterlink.com/?W5A924504</a>
  >
  > ===========================
  >
  > March 29, 2003, 11:53PM
  > An engineer by any other name
  > Legislature to decide if computer programmers can legally use the
  title
  >
  > AUSTIN -- One of the oddest battles of the 78th Legislature is
  pitting
  > Texas' licensed professional engineers against the high-tech
  industry's
  > software dudes.
  >
  > At issue is just who in Texas can call himself an engineer.
  >
  > "It's one of the silliest issues we're having to deal with this
  session, but
  > it's also one of the most important," said Steven Kester,
  legislative
  > director of the American Electronics Association, an organization
  of
  > computer companies.
  >
  > Texas has one of the nation's strictest engineering practices acts
  and
  > limits the title of engineer to those people who have studied
  engineering
  > and passed a licensing exam.
  >
  > And that law puts most of the "engineers" in the high-tech
  industry out of
  > the field. Kester said the restriction threatens high-tech growth
  in Texas.
  >
  > But Ken Rigsbee, chairman of the Texas Society of Professional
  Engineers
  > legislative committee, said the restriction is needed to protect
  the public.
  >
  > Rigsbee said state restrictions on who can call themselves
  engineers were
  > set up decades ago after someone misengineered a heating pipe
  system at the
  > New London Junior-Senior High School.
  >
  > An explosion of natural gas in the pipe system killed 300 students
  and
  > teachers in 1937.
  >
  > [...]
  >
  > Rest of article is at:
  > <a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1841652">http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1841652</a>