1. Computer engineering isn't an ABET accredited curriculum, like electrical engineering is, so few, if any, are able to obtain a professional license. In most states, therefore, it is illegal to call yourself an engineer without a license.
2. They are constantly putting out crappy versions of their products, that crash and burn. Then they just design a "fix" and require the customer to install it. In the fields of real engineering, such ethics are not tolerated, and they would be forced from the practice. Imagine if the Ford Motor Company routinely put out products that fail routinely. They would have been put out of business decades ago.
christiefan915 (04-15-2019), Phantasmal (04-24-2019), ThatOwlWoman (04-14-2019)
Well, my husband is a software engineer/systems architect. His BS is in industrial engineering, so he is, in fact, a bona fide engineer. He knows over a dozen computer languages including Cobol, SQL, C Sharp, etc. and has written a couple of proprietary ones as well for a system he designed for CIGNA. I think your bitch is with software companies and not software engineers.
Phantasmal (04-24-2019)
Industrial engineering isn't ABET accredited.
https://talk.collegeconfidential.com...ccredited.html
Building a large software application is far more challenging that building a car, as far as getting out a "bug free" product.
Hmmm, interesting. It does take a certain aptitude and analytical skills.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. How many new cars crash en masse on their way home from the dealer's showroom?
How many bridges fall into the river the moment someone walks across?
How many building collapse as soon as the tenants move in?
Yet I can't think of a single software program that isn't buggy as fuck, and most (if not all) of them require constant patches to fix shit that the designers didn't get right before they released it.
So "Bobb" the boob is FOS, in my experience.
Only a fcking moron would compare a bridge to a large software application. Are you a fcking moron? Bridges are very simple and do only one thing. Have you written a large bug-free software application, or you just a fcking moron who has no ability to even begin to grasp the complexity of software?
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