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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: New Discussion (first meetings)
Message-ID: <134@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 19:02:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 19:02:20 1986
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References: <705@leadsv.UUCP> <130400004@hpfcls.UUCP> <723@leadsv.UUCP> <1777@hammer.UUCP> <2579@gatech.CSNET>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <2579@gatech.CSNET> flash@gatech.CSNET (John C. Flaspohler) writes:
>In article <1777@hammer.UUCP>, seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>> 
>> The problem with this is that you will make the people who have gone
>> to the pain of getting an engineering degree mad at you.  (Would
>> you go to someone who calls him/herself a "doctor", but wasn't?)
>> 
>            ... My degree (if I manage to get it) will read Ph.D. in
>Information and Computer Science.  (Does that mean that I can't use the
>titles of Software Engineer and Doctor?) ...

In some states, yes.  As I noted in an earlier posting it's illegal in some
states to call yourself an engineer unless you've passed a special exam and
been certified as such.  Having a degree is a necessary but not  sufficient
requisite in this case.

Unfortunately, there's no certification procedure for software engineers as
yet.  The nearest equivalents are the CDP and CCP exams.

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