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From: dave@ur-helheim.UUCP (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: New Discussion (first meetings)
Message-ID: <455@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 09:46:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 09:46:16 1986
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Reply-To: dave@helheim.UUCP (David F. Carlson)
Organization: U. of Rochester, EE Dept.
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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?)
>> 
>I really think that this is
>unfair, besides, what is to differentiate between an engineering and
>non-engineering degree? 
>
>--flash

In the United States there exists a governing board called ABET--Amer. Board of
Engg. & Tech., which reviews EVERY undergrad engineering course of every school
that awards a bachelors in engineering EVERY three years for content and
as a part of an engineering curiculum.  Furthermore, undergrad engineers must have
a minimum of 32 hours of Engineering science ( math/physics/etc don't count) and
a minimum of 16 hours of Engineering Design to be considered for a degree.  The
courses that go toward those requirements can be from any engineering discipline
but usually must be ABET sanctioned.  

This has departed drastically from net.singles.  But in a nut shell that is why an
engineering degree is considered to be a *professional* degree.  (That and the 
possibility of gaining statewide certification through PE training for which an
accredited bachelors engineering degree is required.)  To usurp a professional
title (albeit through hard work et al.) is tantamount to nurse practioner decided
to be called Doctor since he/she "does the work" of a doctor.

Well, you asked.




-- 
"The Faster I Go the Behinder I Get"
--Lewis Carroll

Dave Carlson

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