Posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 23:07:20 :
In Reply to: Re: Is that true?? posted by Kevin in Rehoboth on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 19:33:43 :
When I graduated in 1982, they had just dropped the requirement that all electrical engineering students take a power class. They had a wonderful motor lab in the basement full of beautiful equipment from the 1940s, but they scrapped it all out to make room for more computer stuff, which of course was the wave of the future. It astonished me that they'd give a guy a BSEE without him every operating a motor, generator, or power transformer. 10 years or so after that, I heard that they even dropped the requirement for an electronics lab class, saying that the students would do their "lab experiments" via computer simulation. So, now the freshly-minted EEs not only don't know how to measure the torque of a motor, they don't even know which end of the soldering iron to pick up or how to use a volt meter. And this is from a well-regarded state University, not some teacher's college with an EE sideline.