Re: Off-Topic: Engineers (small rant)

From: <Clifford>
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 12:15:00 EDT

As a licensed PE I agree whole-heartedly. Please see article in June 2004 Engineering Times (monthly publication from National Society of Professional Engineers), page 1 "Quebec Court Fines Microsoft for Misuse of Engineer Title". The article states that in 2001 Microsoft Canada agreed to stop calling MCSE-certified employees engineers, but began calling them engineers again in July 2002.

• Original Message ----- From: Paul Bowers To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: [PipingDesign] Off-Topic: "Engineers" (small rant)

   I was recently looking for various engineer certification criteria and    all I found was sites/pages that were about software "engineers".

   Sorry, but someone that puts their name on something that I cannot walk    on, touch, drive, or risk losing fingers with does not deserve the    appellation of engineer.

   For software, "developer" or "designer" is more correct. Calling these    people engineers dilutes the true meaning in my opinion.

   Paul

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Sun Jun 06 12:15:00 2004