From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering in Florida
Date: 1999/11/07
Date: 1999-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i_cV3.7$C%6.757@typhoon.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]
In article <1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]> claveman@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
>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?
It's not that straightforward. You're talking about Section 471. For
the text of the definition subsection, see
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/citizen/documents/statutes/StatuteBrowser99/index.cfm?mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0471/SEC005.HTM
Basically, it says you are not allowed to use the title of "registered
engineer" unless you are certified. It also says that you can't
represent yourself as an "engineer" unless you are certified. *But*
the definition of "engineer" is precisely that in that section (which
I agree does not include software engineering).
However what that means is not what you state. Indeed, it's almost
the exactly opposite. It is certainly perfectly legal in Florida to
call oneself a "software engineer". Indeed, if software *were*
included in 471.005(6), you could *not* do that without being a
licensed "software engineer".
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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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Marin Condic
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
1999-11-08 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
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Software Engineering in Florida 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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-10 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
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
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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