[48147] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Certification or College degrees?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Snodgrass)
Thu May 23 02:41:25 2002
From: "Dave Snodgrass" <dave@thedatasource.net>
To: "'Jeffrey Meltzer'" <jeffrey@villageworld.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 02:40:48 -0400
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Up here in Canada, iirc, its actually illegal to call yourself an
Engineer without a degree. There's something about a bridge falling down
in Quebec and killing a whole whack of people that brought that about.
That said, Dalhousie University now offers a Masters Degree in
Internetworking over seen by Cisco, TARA, Nortel, Bell and others.
Pretty neat stuff, and may actually be a good indicator of experience
AND book skill...
http://www.dal.ca/internetworking
./dave
-----Original Message-----
Contrary to what appears to be popular belief, there are schools which
have
Networking programs..For instance, New York Institute of Technology has
an
AAS in Telecommunications Technology and a BS in Telecommunications
Management.
Classes include multiple Voice & Data classes, as well as Wireless
Networking, Traffic Management, Network Management, LAN/WAN/MAN, Telecom
Law/Policy, as well as a slew of Electronics and CompSci classes...
All very useful for foundations, and pretty interesting...At least I
found
it useful and worth the money...
Jeff
