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Licensing professional software engineers: seize the opportunity
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Professional organizations should be in the forefront of the ongoing discussion about licensing professional software engineers.
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“While software engineering degrees can now be accredited, a license is not required to practice, 71 with some national exceptions.”
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“Finally, proposals to introduce professional sanctions and licensing schemes for computing professionals are also not new, but have thus far seen limited uptake.”
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Self-citationA Principles and Practices Exam Specification to Support Software Engineering Licensure in the USA
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Metadata
- Authors
- Laplante, P. A.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Laplante, Phillip A.
- ORCID
- Laplante, Phillip A.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2014-07
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 38-40
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W1971899500
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2021: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 4.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation
- Social Sciences › Education › Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Systems Education and Curriculum Development
- Keywords
- professional licensing, professional associations, software engineering profession
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