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| tom66:
--- Quote from: Simon on June 16, 2023, 03:36:47 pm ---Depends on how bright his co-workers are. We had a work experience student that at 16 I'd have given a job to if I could. by 18 I was as sorry as he was to see him going off to university to be lectured to by those who can't. --- End quote --- Or to get a good education in an area where he is practically quite skilled? If he was working in engineering then a degree in the field is a very good thing to have, if it comes from a decent university with a good reputation for engineering studies. I went to university having a good deal of skills beforehand, I was already designing PCBs and writing software before that. Of course I did well in the course, I wasn't that great at the exams but the practical modules I sailed through. It was good to get a solid mathematical and theoretical basis for the things I had already some intuition for. The biggest problem with university is the course is too long for many engineering studies - I would choose to condense the 5-year course (4 years plus 'sandwich' year in industry) I went on down to 2.5 years and still be happy. But I don't regret doing it one bit. It has also been extremely useful to my career, most job ads I look at simply will not consider anyone without a degree and I do put into practice the odd thing I learned. I can only see this opposition towards degrees comes from people who believe engineering is purely an intuitive, self-taught field when the reality is it's closer to an applied scientific field than anything, and the theoretical basis is not something you can skip out on if you want to be a skilled engineer. |
| EEVblog:
Remeber that thread we had on here about the 10yo kid who was trying to get a degree by his 11th birthday or something and the college said he needed an extra year, but his parents were so upset at the delay that they pulled him out? FOUND IT: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/belgian-boy-laurent-simons-heads-off-to-university-aged-8/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50734000 |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: karpouzi9 on June 17, 2023, 06:12:51 am --- --- Quote from: madires on June 15, 2023, 02:00:15 pm ---Child labour at SpaceX? --- End quote --- Several of my acquaintances from uni were groomed as minors into the twin cults of SpaceX and Tesla. You can imagine how they're doing today (hint: they're heavily medicated). --- End quote --- Isn't this the bright future that everybody wants? ;D |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: tom66 on June 16, 2023, 04:06:34 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on June 16, 2023, 03:36:47 pm ---Depends on how bright his co-workers are. We had a work experience student that at 16 I'd have given a job to if I could. by 18 I was as sorry as he was to see him going off to university to be lectured to by those who can't. --- End quote --- Or to get a good education in an area where he is practically quite skilled? If he was working in engineering then a degree in the field is a very good thing to have, if it comes from a decent university with a good reputation for engineering studies. I went to university having a good deal of skills beforehand, I was already designing PCBs and writing software before that. Of course I did well in the course, I wasn't that great at the exams but the practical modules I sailed through. It was good to get a solid mathematical and theoretical basis for the things I had already some intuition for. The biggest problem with university is the course is too long for many engineering studies - I would choose to condense the 5-year course (4 years plus 'sandwich' year in industry) I went on down to 2.5 years and still be happy. But I don't regret doing it one bit. It has also been extremely useful to my career, most job ads I look at simply will not consider anyone without a degree and I do put into practice the odd thing I learned. I can only see this opposition towards degrees comes from people who believe engineering is purely an intuitive, self-taught field when the reality is it's closer to an applied scientific field than anything, and the theoretical basis is not something you can skip out on if you want to be a skilled engineer. --- End quote --- i don't know how long ago you went to university but it has degenerated a lot. No engineering is not just about intuition. I am completing a HND by distance learning and it has been horrendous and useless. Electrical now includes a module on renewable energy that somehow ended up into the poorly explained principles of heating a house and heat loss. Apparently a house only needs it's air heating and in one exercise having argued with the tutor I made the point in evaluating calculations that I did not need to take into account heat loss as the temperature rose to it's steady state as it would take a mere 45 seconds to heat the house. Naturally calculating thermals on a circuit board has not been taught. |
| magic:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2023, 05:49:25 am ---Remeber that thread we had on here about the 10yo kid who was trying to get a degree by his 11th birthday or something and the college said he needed an extra year, but his parents were so upset at the delay that they pulled him out? FOUND IT: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/belgian-boy-laurent-simons-heads-off-to-university-aged-8/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50734000 --- End quote --- ::) And reportedly he jumped from EE to physics and graduated last year. Surely sounds like somebody who knows what he wants. Or not. |
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