From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,5f84b8fbc4fa2e36 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5f84b8fbc4fa2e36 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: fc5c9,5f84b8fbc4fa2e36 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc5c9,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,5f84b8fbc4fa2e36 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,5f84b8fbc4fa2e36 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,5f84b8fbc4fa2e36 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5f84b8fbc4fa2e36 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Scherer Subject: Re: Wanted - Feedback on the usefulness of your education Date: 1997/07/29 Message-ID: <33DE3B32.C4A@nasa.kodak.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 260263544 References: <5rapis$12ok$1@mercury.cc.uottawa.ca> To: Tim Lethbridge Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Reply-To: bscherer@nasa.kodak.com Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I think that you are short sighting some people. I have a degree in Information Systems Management, and have been in the computer field for aver 17 yearws, and in the SQA arena for over 12. I do not have a software engineering degree, as many people that program have Electrical Engineering degrees. Brian Scherer PS. I would be glad to fill out your survey, but I do not have web access. Please e-mail me a copy. Tim Lethbridge wrote: > > I would appreciate if as many of you as possible could take the time to > fill out the survey located at: > > http://www.cser.ca/CSSESurvey/ > > (select the link 'questionnaire') > > The goal of this is to determine how relevant typical software education is > to working professionals. The results will be used to help improve curricula, > and determine training needs for employees. > > For each of a list of topics taught in computer science and engineering > programs, I ask: > > * How much did you learn about this topic in your education? > * How much do you know now? (after having learned more or forgotten some) > * How useful has it been in your career? > * How useful would it be to learn more? > > I posted this request before once, but unfortunately many people were not able > to access the web server due to a disk crash. Thanks for those who already > participated. > > I would like to have people from a wide variety of companies complete this > survey (several people per company, preferably from different parts of the > company). I am interested in people who are developing or maintaining > software, managing these activities or performing closely related > activities. Normally people who complete this survey will have had a > university or college education in computer science or engineering, but I > am also interested in people who are self-taught or who have entered the > field with different educational backgrounds. I am also interested in > ensuring that I include people with varying amounts of experience. > > The results will be published, although individual data will of course be > kept confidential. > > Thank-you for your assistance. > > -- > Timothy C. Lethbridge, | Assistant Professor / Professeur adjoint > http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~tcl | tcl@site.uottawa.ca /T.Lethbridge@ieee.ca > SITE: School of Information Technology and Engineering > University of/d'Ottawa | W/B: 613 562-5800 x6685 > Ottawa, Canada, K1N 6N5 | Fax: 613 562-5187 H/M: 613 237-6642