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From: pcolsen@super.ORG (Peter C Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Programmer Licensing?
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Date: 25 Oct 89 23:57:19 GMT
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The question of professional licensing is important for legal 
reasons.  In the state of Maryland (as in most states) if you 
claim to practice any form of "engineering" without a registration, you're
breaking the law.  You can claim to be a "computer programmer" without
trouble, but a claim of "software engineer" needs a P.E.  Note: practice
means "public practice" --- working as an employee of a corporation is
not covered.

Peter C. Olsen P.E.  pcolsen @ super.super.org