North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Certification or College degrees?
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 > --- > <[email protected]> > http://www.andrewsworld.net/ > ICQ: 2895251 > Cisco Certified Network Associate > > "Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself." > >
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