Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers

["Robin P. Reagan" <rreagan@den.mmc.com>]

Jack W Scheible wrote:
> 
> There is nary an engineering curriculum in the country that does not
> require programming, and nary a Computer Science curriculum that
> requires engineering classes.
> 

The reason that most schools don't require CS majors to take Engineering classes is that
Engineering is only one of many areas that CS people have open to them! vertually every
profession you can think of has been or will be touch by computers (and programmers)! You don't
need to understand fluid mechanics to write a financial analysis (yuck ptttt ptttt...) program.
The reverse can't be said about Engineering, Virtually every aspect of Engineering is associated
in some way with computers.

The school I attended left enough free credits open to the CS(BS) student to get a minor. I used
mine for Physics, some used theirs for Math or Bussiness (Even though my school offered a CS(BA)
for bussiness) I guess they prefered the BS over the BA.

Robin,    a SE doing SW (How about that  :-)
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