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Re: SM want it all?

Airplanes flew just fine decades before the first modern digital computer was ever conceived of. I am not discounting the importance of computers or software but it is not engineering in the common usage of the term people who prepare for a profession in engineering through formal training would use. Writing software for an application, testing it, debugging it is engineering only in the loosest sense of the term such as when a landscape architect engineers the trees and shrubs around a house to achieve a desired effect. A formal education in engineering requires a four year program of calculus and other higher mathematics which must be mastered to understand and use engineering concepts, physics, chemistry, material science, statics and dynamics, thermodynamics, and fluidics among others. All real engineers MUST pass these courses as pre-requisites to more specialized engineering studies for their particular field of interest. Computer programmers do not require most or any of these courses and you can tack the word engineer on to their title, even the degree they are conferred but that doesn't change the reality of what they know and don't know. E-Stat is living proof of this each time he makes an ignorant statement like he just did.

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