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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: magic on June 17, 2023, 08:59:58 am ---
--- 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

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::)

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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 ;D

At that age we all went wherever the girls were.

.RC.:

--- Quote from: Xena E on June 16, 2023, 03:17:23 pm ---

I'll repeat, publicity stunt.

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These big corporations and government when they make grand announcements, how much is believable these days, there is just so much marketing wank and they have cried wolf so many times that people switch off.

Or maybe it is just me getting older and grumpy.

These prodigal youths, if they find everything so easy, I wonder how do they fare when all of a sudden the going gets tough, when they have never had a tough going before especially today in these big fake woke corporations where the fake corporate image is one of the most important things.  You can not tell them to stop being a cockhead these days.

All I can see is that unless properly nurtured, being very smart it would be a curse. 

tom66:

--- Quote from: Simon on June 17, 2023, 08:10:54 am ---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.

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I graduated about six years ago.  I don't think much has changed then.

One issue is distance learning.  I'm not convinced it's as good as being there in person.  Obviously if you want to work a job at the same time it might be your only option.

We did a course on renewable energy too, but it was more focused at the grid level, and on things like MPPT and power converters for renewable systems.  Not that useful to me but I can imagine someone finding it useful.

The most useless subject was our motor controls one, which spent the whole semester talking about SCR-controlled motor drives.  Yes, they are still used, in old industrial systems, but there was no mention at all about three phase induction motors or BLDC motors, which are actually the future in things like electric cars.

I went to Leeds, a red-brick research university, I think when I went there they were in the top 10 for UK universities in electronic engineering.   I've been trying to get a friend of mine to look into going there, as he's quite a skilled engineer as a hobbyist but has struggled to get a decent job without a degree.  Unfortunately due to poor academic history most universities won't consider him, even if he shows skills in the field he'd be studying.  That kind of thing needs to change, at least for engineering.

Simon:
The distance learning material is so bad that I have no faith in the university itself but they are the only university doing electronic engineering by distance learning. Yes I work, I nudged my way into electronics at my last job but got fed up and moved having gained enough experience to be taken on as the only electrical engineer.

We recently interviewed some people. I agreed with the head hunter that power electronics would be a suitable angle to try as I wanted to weed out the Arduino and STM32 junkies, as I was more interested in people that actually get electronics. So one person had listed power electronics as a module they studied at university, they made as their final project a disaster relief battery with a linear regulator, apparently it was the cheapest option and the goal was cost, although I thought disaster relief might have efficiency as a goal but never mind me, they remembered that there was another type of regulator but never mentioned the name of it.

They referred to their time at uni as though it was a long time ago and hardly relevant, but were in their first job since uni basically plastering off the shelf parts together on a rack at a start up company that was all hype.

I really wish university was relevant these days, but I always get a sense that it has been dumbed down, they are just businesses now, and it is a race to the bottom to get people through the door.

Ed.Kloonk:
Just get your ticket and get outta there. Don't waste energy fighting with teachers.

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