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From: peterd@cs.washington.edu (Peter C. Damron)
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Subject: Re: CS education
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Date: 9 Nov 89 20:29:03 GMT
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In article <34705@regenmeister.uucp> chrisp@regenmeister.uucp (Chris Prael) writes:
>There is a basic set of disciplines to engineering.  This set seems to
>be well taught in civil and mechanical engineering curricula and less
>well in electronic engineering curricula.  The set seems to be taught
>little or not at all in the typical computer science curriculum.

I'm not sure I know what you are talking about.
Just what is this "basic set of disciplines" that engineers learn?
How does it differ from what I would call "tools and techniques"?

Excuse my ignorance,
Peter.

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Peter C. Damron
Dept. of Computer Science, FR-35
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195

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