From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering in Florida
Date: 1999/11/05
Date: 1999-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]
In article <1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]>,
claveman@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:
> I was told several years ago, by someone who should know, that
> the Florida legislature had codified the term _engineer_, limiting it
> to practitioners of the classical engineering disciplines. The upshot
> was that anyone who called himself a software engineer was breaking
> the law.
> I like to mention this in a lecture on software design that I
> often give. Does anyone know if it's still true or has the definition
> been expanded to include software?
Check out the law yourself at
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/citizen/documents/statutes/StatuteBrowser99/i
ndex.cfm?Mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0471/titl0471.htm
From a quick skimming, it looks like you just can't refer to yourself as
a "registered engineer" unless you actually have registered with the
state board. There is language in there that defines what "engineer"
means, but I think that's just for the purposes of interpreting the law,
not a law in and of itself. It just appears to be trying to prevent
people from lying about being registered when they aren't.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-04 0:00 Software Engineering in Florida Charles H. Sampson
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ron Skoog
1999-11-08 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ron Skoog
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ron Skoog
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Engineering & Software Engineering M.
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Software Engineering in Florida Robert Dewar
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-08 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-08 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-10 0:00 ` M.
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-05 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-06 0:00 ` M.
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Engineering Liability (was Re: Software Engineering in Florida) Robert I. Eachus
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