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- Subject: Re: `Engineer' in your title
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.210426.14280@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
- From: dain@holmes.ece.uc.edu (Dain Samples)
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:04:26 GMT
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- Can you call yourself a `software engineer' in the state of Ohio?
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- Someone inquired as to my source of the law I cited in a previous
- posting. Here are the relevant parts of the News Release to members
- of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers, begin quote:
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- AN OPSE NEWS RELEASE TO MEMBERS - JUNE 30, 1992
- A LEGISLATIVE VICTORY FOR OSPE
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- Sub. H.B. 482, the ``Engineers Title Bill,'' was signed into law by
- Governor George Voinovich on June 24, 1992.
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- The major provision in H.B. 482 is the enactment of a new section of
- law which states that:
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- (1) No individual shall use the term ``engineer'' by itself unless the
- person is a graduate of an accredited engineering program or is a
- licensed professional engineer.
-
- (2) No individual shall use the term ``engineer'' in connection with
- another term which would imply that the person is a graduate of an
- accredited engineering curriculum unless the person is a graduate of
- an ABET curriculum. For example, a person could not say they [sic]
- were a civil, mechanical, chemical, or electrical engineer unless in
- fact the person graduated from such a program.
-
- End quote.
-
- Questions: I heard a rumor that MIT's EE program is not ABET
- accredited. True? Does this mean MIT graduates cannot call
- themselves `engineers' in Ohio?
-
- More specifically for this newsgroup: does this mean that we cannot
- call ourselves `software engineers', if we so chose? Or do we have an
- escape clause in that `software engineer' is not a term that
- automatically would imply graduation from an ABET accredited program?
- --
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- A. Dain Samples, Dain.Samples@uc.edu, wk:(513)556-4783, hm:(513)771-5492
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- It is so difficult to find the beginning. Or, better, it is difficult
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- -Heidegger (from "Being and Time", paraphrased)
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