Hello everybody, a new blog post very soon. It\u2019s the sweetness of mangoes that has induced this quick activity at the blog. Getting to the point, the title-\u201cIT is my name and not SOFTWARE\u201d, is a topic of sheer Engineer\u2019s interest but it is posted for the awareness of all Non-Engineer mass who often cannot distinguish between two addressees of enormous difference in their meaning, namely- \u201cAn IT Engineer\u201d and \u201cA Software Engineer\u201d. The designation \u201cSoftware Engineer\u201d is often used by the mass and is a disastrous misnomer for an \u201cIT Engineer\u201d. The difference between a \u201cSoftware Engineer\u201d and an \u201cIT Engineer\u201d is as off the mark as between a \u201cMASON\u201d (Gujarati: \u201cKadiyo\u201d) and a \u201cCivil Engineer\u201d<\/em><\/strong>. Why and How are the two questions which an Engineer asks for every statement made. Being an Engineer I will answer both \u201cWHY\u201d and \u201cHOW\u201d for this topic of mine. Here I elaborate:<\/p>\n

Firstly, I would like to emanate the topic by explaining who the IT Engineers are actually. This will serve my explanation for \u201cHOW\u201d as mentioned above. Let me first tell you who an IT Engineer is and what does his capability spectrum inculcate. You can comfortably call an IT Engineer a Semi-EC Engineer and a Semi-Computer Engineer. An IT Engineer can comfortably handle most of the Electronic circuit networks, CMOS circuits and devices, most of Digital Circuits and Devices (included Making, Operation as well as Trouble Shooting). An IT Engineer is also the one who extends his reign in the brainy MICROPROCESSOR World (The heart of any Embedded System). These were some capabilities which he derives from the area of Electronics. Now coming to Computers. An IT Engineer can very comfortably assemble a Computer. Not only computer, he can also assemble for you a customized computer system (matching your or client\u2019s requirement not seen anywhere in the world). Coming to communication now. An IT Engineer\u2019s reign also extends up to the Communication arena.\u00a0 He holds knowledge in the field of Digital Signals, Digital Switching and Digital Data Transmission (A Subject of Electronics and Communication Engineering). He is also a master in Networking which lies in his own IT Engineering domain. These were some core Engineering efficiencies any \u201cGOOD\u201d IT Engineer possesses. The real picture is even larger. I won\u2019t hesitate in mentioning a very tangible fact that a SOFTWARE engineer may not have any of the above mentioned skills.<\/p>\n

Now let me tell you what Software skills an IT Engineer is expected to groom himself to. The fields and titles I will be mentioning now lie under the foot of every GOOD IT Engineer. He is the undisputable master in the fields I will mention now. A few very common things which an IT Engineer masters are: Java (Uh, a cake walk for an IT Engineer), ASP.NET (Ah, faltoo hai), DBMS (I can make another Oracle, says an IT Engineer), PHP (Naya hai to kya hai, merko aata hai). Neural Networks, Ruby on Rails, Shell, CGI, Python, AJAX, Web Designing, Software Testing, Debugging and Management, are a few petite things to cite what lie under the sole rule of an IT Engineer. Now, these subjects that are elementary for an IT Engineer to know, interestingly are the ONLY things a SOTWARE Engineer knows! A software engineer knows only the application of computer software and nothing else. He is not the maker but just an operator. And interestingly Software Engineering is a subject of IT Engineering taught in one of the 8 Semesters in our College. To make the picture more explicit, the thing which Software Engineer learns in his total N Semesters, IT Engineers learn in just ONE semesters of the 8 odd semesters of the Engineering curriculum.<\/em>
\nYou might also be astonished to know that there is no designation such as \u201cSOFTWARE Engineer\u201d. It\u2019s the insensible mass and the profit hungry IT Companies who have got this insane designation of \u201cSoftware Engineer\u201d into existence. Now the Indian mass is so generous that it calls people who have secured their Bachelors or Masters in Computer Applications as SOFTWARE Engineers. Oh common people, you\u2019re calling those people Engineers who can just play with Computer Applications and not create them. Engineer is a BIG word that people don\u2019t get it right today. People call any Tom, Dick and Harry an Engineer today. As you cannot call a Civil Engineer as Mason in the same way it\u2019s a bigger offence to term an IT Engineer as a SOFTWARE Engineer. The IT companies have been equal culprits in this fiasco. Companies recruit Bachelors or Masters in Computer Apps (BCA, MCA) as they don\u2019t have to pay them as high as Engineers, train them for 6 months and then certify them as what people call \u201cSOFTWARE Engineers\u201d. Come on people how come Engineers? Have some shame at least. Engineer is a word which carries huge responsibility with it. You\u2019re conferring the title of \u201cEngineer\u201d on such people who don\u2019t have to do with even \u201cE\u201d of Engineering. Another thing which the leading IT titans do is that they hire Engineers from other fraternities like \u201cMechanical\u201d, \u201cElectrical\u201d etc, train them for 6 months and certify them as \u201cSOFTWARE Engineers\u201d. Shameless Indian IT Corps! Then we Indians ponder why we can\u2019t have IT masterpieces from India. Ofcourse you will never have them as long as the players of clutches and brakes play insanely on Computer Codes and TCP\/IP.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s high time the Indian mass understands the difference between \u201cInformation Technology Engineering\u201d and \u201cSoftware Engineering\u201d. Information Technology is a term with fathomless criteria and deals with all kinds of \u201cInformation\u201d, its processing and application. Be it Digital, Electronic, Web, or just anything. Where as Software Engineering is restricted to just and just COMPUTER SOFTWARE. Software Engineering can be just called an iota of \u201cIT Engineering\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lastly, the problem is the Indian layman doesn\u2019t understand the term \u201cInformation Technology\u201d and therefore he harps the clich\u00e9d word – \u201cSoftware\u201d. If the layman doesn\u2019t understand, its time we make him understand. For the IT Engineers reading this, let\u2019s shout, let\u2019s bark and make people aware that IT and SOFTWARE are not the same. Let\u2019s fight for our real identify. Let\u2019s strive for the identity of our designation \u201cIT Engineer\u201d which we latch unto by great efforts. Don\u2019t give up when you have to make the layman understand the difference between \u201cIT\u201d and \u201cSOFTWARE\u201d. When you have earned the degree with efforts make sure people pay equivalent reverence to it. Therefore, just one last line to conclude and I dedicate to my fellow IT Engineers. \u201cNot Software, IT it is, and IT Engineer is my name\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Love & Regards,<\/p>\n

Anish.<\/p>\n

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