[48192] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Thu May 23 15:15:11 2002
From: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@sockeye.com>
To: "Vadim Antonov" <avg@exigengroup.com>,
"Andrew Dorsett" <zerocool@netpath.net>
Cc: "Kristian P. Jackson" <kahuna@krisjackson.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:09:48 -0400
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Oh really?
That's like saying that there is not enough stuff you have to know to
successfully design air conditioners or cars to fill single semester
courses, and yet, Mechanical Engineering programs exist.
A good undergrad degree program in network engineering would have...
- a solid CS core of introductory coding classes, with some OS stuff
- A bunch of math, concentrating on the applied side, especially statistics
and discrete math.
- EE, at least a year or two, to cover the basics
- The normal engineering core classes (calculus, physics, chemistry,
statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, fluids)
- And then some actual network engineering stuff like routing protocols,
wireless, microwave, optics, LAN technologies, etc
Finally, like most modern engineering programs, it would be heavily design
based, and include numerous design projects and a capstone project.
- Daniel Golding
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Vadim Antonov
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:11 AM
> To: Andrew Dorsett
> Cc: Kristian P. Jackson; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?
>
>
>
>
> > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kristian P. Jackson wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps a bachelors in network
> >> engineering is in order?
>
> I'm afraid there's not enough stuff one has to know to sucessfully
> "design" networks to fill more than one-semester course.
>
> --vadim
>
