emery@mbunix (Emery) (02/18/89)
Your posting concerning the NY 'qualifications' on engineering programs was interesting, particularly since your list included "industrial engineering" as an acceptable discipline. Two comments: 1. What makes "industrial engineering" different from "software engineering"? They are both "soft engineering", in that they are not founded on the same kind of hard science background (e.g. physics for civil and electrical engineering) that the other engineering programs are founded upon. (This is not an attempt to make disparaging remarks on any field of engineering, but is more an observation on the criterion "traditional" engineers that I know use to distinguish between what they consider proper engineering.) 2. It might be very interesting to combine an industrial engineering and software engineering program, and maybe call it "MSIE, Software Engineering". This is particularly true if you consider the managerial/production aspects of software engineering, as your program seems to do. Just some thoughs dave emery emery@mitre.org