21 Feb
2002
21 Feb
'02
12:47 p.m.
At 12:18 AM 2/22/02 +0000, you wrote:
I have a theory about this. Hardware hacking (meaning anything
hands-on) is like learning to drive a car. You don't do it before
you're 17 -- you never learn to do it properly :-/ . And of
course, most ee majors meet hardware in their first lab course after
they're too old.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
Boss and I
talked about what he have seen from college's churning
out students filled with knowledge but very little troubleshooting
skills *especially* at component level and wrong type of skills to
boot! The area students trained with were for peecee area.
Oh, don't get me started on this (it's off-topic anyway...). I've met
graduate engineers who presumably are great with some complex equation
that I wouldn't have a clue about, but who are totally clueless when it
comes to anything practical. They're the sort of people who ask for 362.8
ohm resistors to use as LED current limiters, who can't estimate
component values for a simple RC filter, who can't solder anything
properly, and so on. Oh well... :-(
-tony