Licensing software engineers: the Computer Society must continue to lead

Author

Bagert, Donald J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

201

Abstract

The key issue concerning the licensing of software engineers as Professional Engineers in the United States is not whether it should occur; i.e., it appears that such licensing is inevitable, and the focus should therefore be on having an implementation strategy that is of maximum benefit to both the computing and engineering communities. Of the two major computing societies, IEEE-CS has shown the most willingness to work with the US licensing organizations in the short-term. The article argues that it is essential that the Computer Society continue to provide leadership to the computing field in this area

Keywords

accreditation; government policies; professional aspects; societies; software engineering; Computer Society; IEEE-CS; Professional Engineers; US licensing organizations; United States; computing societies; engineering communities; implementation strategy; software engineer licensing; Accreditation; Certification; Computer Society; Computer science; Electrical engineering; Guidelines; Knowledge engineering; Licenses; Software engineering; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1999. COMPSAC '99. Proceedings. The Twenty-Third Annual International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0368-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1999.812700

Filename

812700