So, in the title it says paragraph, but the idea, of making the title
"Foundational competencies of an (RS)E" also belongs here.
Content of this paragraph could be
the discussion of where to put the brace
emphasizing that it's not just the technical complexity that we handle, but also the research and social complexity. Thereby covering a larger complexity than an engineer.
the discussion, that different RSE societies put the emphasis slightly different in that spectrum.
this is about the relationship to traditional SE skills and the SE community.
Anna-Lena's "interface discipline"
RSE not a subset of SE
There exists multitude of views on the definition. This is natural, since we are in the early stages of forming a well-
defined field in applied sciences from the multitude of things that self-defined RSEs actually do.
Due to the heterogeneity and high degree of specialization of working RSEs, the field needs to be considered as a
collection of sub-communities.
The dialectics of "bottom-up" (systematically building of skills from general foundations to specialization) and "top-down" (acquiring relevant skills in response to a set task, "learning on the job").
Different RSE societies (look at UK, US, DE, other?) might have different definitions (have they?)
In the relationship SE / RSE maybe use relationship math / physics as a metaphor?
RSEs potentially need to deal with non-technical complexities that are characteristic for research environments: organizational, motivational, with respect to the size of projects, independence and heterogeneous goals of stakeholders, boundary conditions for funding and future funding, ....
So, in the title it says paragraph, but the idea, of making the title "Foundational competencies of an (RS)E" also belongs here.
Content of this paragraph could be