Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!care.cs.umd.edu!cml From: cml@care.cs.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: engineer training (was Re: bridge building) Message-ID: <33848@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 2 May 91 01:07:04 GMT References: <1245@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Reply-To: cml@care.cs.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) Distribution: na Organization: University of Maryland Dept of Computer Science Lines: 15 In article <1245@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> chrisp@regenmeister.EBay.Sun.COM (Chris Prael) writes: >Most of [ noncreative CS types ] were put on the wrong track by "computer >science" training in college and have never had the advantage of being >trained by an engineer. May a computer-scientist-by-training grad student ask about this in more detail? I'm certain you have something very concrete in mind when you refer to being trained by an engineer, but what? I have a buddy who is an M.E.; what did he get in his 5 years of B.S.M.E. education that I missed in my 5 years of B.S.C.I.S. and continuation in grad school? (Other than diff eq ;-) chris... -- Christopher Lott \/ Dept of Comp Sci, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 cml@cs.umd.edu /\ 4122 AV Williams Bldg 301 405-2721