[48107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Certification or College degrees?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian)
Wed May 22 19:11:32 2002
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:10:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: Andrew Dorsett <zerocool@netpath.net>
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I see ucsd extension offers a communication engineering cert, which altho
a cert is not vendor specific. Seems to deal with typical hi level EE
stuff, and offers a shot to get into their masters program.
Bri
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Andrew Dorsett wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Nigel Clarke wrote:
>
> > What do you think is more respected, a masters degree in
> > Networking Engineering or a CCIE. In most
>
> One of my arguments is that this doesn't exist but at a FEW schools
> around the world and only at the MS level. I've been looking for a
> network engineering program because personally I don't see myself being
> required to design a processor, as long as I know how it behaves and
> operates. Sure some believe its required to know how to build a processor and I think its really cool
> (Yes I do know) but to some this is not important because they will
> never be required to build one. This would be the perfect curriculum. I know Valdis is from VT, so I hope he's listening. Why
> couldn't we as a networking community sit down and come up with a degree
> program that goes from BS to PhD? Sure it can touch on basic programming
> and basic processor design, but it would be more heavily weighted towards
> utilizing technologies on the market and creating solutions to the common
> programs. It could be a mix between the CCIE, Net+, etc. Because I know
> my Comp Engineering program doesn't touch on anything related at all to
> networking, and never even mentions the idea of security. So why not
> create a focused area for this?
>
> - Andrew
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