Software engineer professional certification

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Diversity and Inclusion. Find a Professional Chapter. Start a Chapter. Chapter Resources. Distinguished Visitors Program. Find a Student Chapter. Student Membership. AnnaLear It's extremely common in Europe for computer science departments to sit within their engineering faculties. I know that "certified" programs in engineering are considered certified if they have the ABET accreditation, I think the same is afforded to CS and SWE Please see the link to be able to search for specific schools.

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Presumably you'd still need to have passed the FE exam and have met degree and other requirements before you could register for the software engineering PE exam. Caleb There is a process to apply for waivers to take the PE exam without taking the FE exam first, if you meet certain criteria.

Also, the FE exam is designed for undergraduate students and most of the components of an FE exam aren't covered in undergraduate software engineering programs. ChiefTwoPencils I will edit this answer later and I may have some other answers that also reference this exam , but I'm not surprised. I attended an accredited Software Engineering program and I would not have been able to pass any of the FE exams needed to line up for that PE exam. The process never really lined up with the industry, which is unfortunate.

Thank you for the head's up on this, though! NP, it's a shame because, IMO, our field is in need of a way to solidify it as a true engineering discipline; one way to do that is having a standard way to test and identify professionals.

Charles E. Grant Charles E. Grant Do you know if we as software engineers can help IEEE gain some traction in this field? In other words, yes, but it depends heavily on where you work and is, outside of those particular sorts of jobs, not worth the trouble. If you're, say, an EE and you write software in the power industry, though, go for it! The web site for the IEEE certification program is here: computer. Note that the PE certification is not just a sticker for your resume.

In the US it has real legal consequences, though exactly what those are varies from state to state. It generally includes committees on standards of practices and much higher exposure to liability and charges of malpractice. I don't know that most programmers are interested in opening that can of worms, even if they call themselves software engineers.

It may differ from state to state but I believe it's two years of experience working under a PE.