On 7 Jan 2004, Steve Furlong wrote:
contrary to Jim's statement, Texas does license software engineers. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering .) I don't know if any other states license SEs.
Quoting your own source: "Donald Bagart of Texas became the first professional software engineer in the U.S. on September 4, 1998 or October 9, 1998. As of May 2002, Texas had issued 44 professional enginering licenses for software engineers. "The professional movement has been criticized for many reasons. "* Licensed software engineers must learn years of physics and chemistry to pass the exams, which is irrelevant to most software practitioners." This is exactly what the ACM gripes about. In order to use the title "engineer" in the Great State of Texas you have to pass examinations relevant to classical engineering (civil, mechanical, etc) but wholly irrelevant to software engineering. -- Jim Dixon jdd@dixons.org tel +44 117 982 0786 mobile +44 797 373 7881 http://jxcl.sourceforge.net Java unit test coverage http://xlattice.sourceforge.net p2p communications infrastructure