Re: more on "professionalism"

[Rich Dempsey <dempsey@kodak.com>]

Hear!  Hear!

If one filters out all the static on the misuse of certification, it becomes
pretty obvious that BoK is a pre-requisite for a certification program, as
well as a bunch of other things, like audits (well I suppose that's really a
kind of certification, too).  Geoff Halprin has done some marvelous work on
this.  I'm looking forward to seeing his upcoming short book on the topic.

If we get a consensus on a really good definition of the BoK of the field, 
the certification debate will be majorly tamed, if not history.

Rich

At 06:20 PM 01/04/2001 -0800, Strata Rose Chalup wrote:

>It's worth noting that in my deep webdig lately on "professionalism" I
>am finding that most of the other computing organizations I look at
>(ACM, IEEE, and similar) seem to treat it as roughly 50% ethics/codes of
>behavior, 30% - 35% body of knowledge, and 20 - 15% certification.  
>
>I wonder if we are allocating resources in the correct priority by
>placing certification above both BoK and ethics development.  I don't
>wish to waste energy already spent getting certification "up to steam"
>and moving.  I do want to make sure that we don't spend ALL our energy
>on it, though. 
>
>Check out http://onlineethics.org/, the Online Ethics Center for
>Engineering and Science for examples of the sorts of material being
>developed by engineering and computing folks.  Lots of realistic
>examples and case studies, about many real-world events.
>
>Cheers,
>_Strata
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