Certification or College degrees?

Wed May 22 23:10:54 UTC 2002

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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