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Alright but it feels like you didn't really touch on my personal requirements and just appealed to authority.
Feels like the right thing to do, IMO. Why do your personal requirements matter anywhere regarding this? ๐
Progress comes from the voicing of opinions.
And your opinion is that software is not a valid engineering discipline?
Validity aside, it isn't an engineering discipline, that's right.
Programmers are important and do important work but programming doesn't make somebody a physician, or sheriff, or attorney, or congressman.
When control valves in a reactor don't appear to be having an effect you don't call the comp sci guy in to run diagnostics on the terminal, first, instead you call the engineers who manually seal the valves and shuts down the turbines to prevent coolant loss.
You can see the CEAB accredited programs and decide for yourself if they meet your personal criteria โ they all seem to include a substantial variety of advanced mathematics.
I'm sensing that you may be an engineer in another discipline who feels jealous that the horde of unregulated software engineers are diluting your title. It's a valid concern in my opinion, and one that is shared by organizations like PEO who have and will take action on people using the term incorrectly, although their resources and jurisdiction are obviously limited. The key differentiation is between a licensed, professional software engineer with a stamp, and a software developer who was given "engineer" in their title at work.
You seemed more familiar with them so I wanted to hear your input but apparently you know as little about them as I do.
I am not familiar with the curriculum of every single accredited engineering program in Canada, and few people are. I am fairly confident that I do not know as little about them as you do, however.
Well I am not planning to familiarize myself with every single engineering accrediting institution on earth nor would it have any impact on my beliefs of what is and is not an engineering discipline.