Re:The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
by Animats on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:23PM
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Anyone with a real CS degree should be able to learn a new toolkit in six months. The "STEM" crisis is from companies not wanting to pay for that six months.
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Re:The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
by WalterBright on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:58PM
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That's not what I meant by fungible. You don't see CS degree'd people moving into electronics, fluid mechanics or mechanical design.
The math and mathematical techniques for electronics, fluid mechanics, statics, and kinematics is all the same. For example, a mass/spring/damper system is the same as an inductor/capacitor/resister network.
Good point. Although I have a undergrad CS degree, it's old enough that I got a general engineering education, from thermodynamics to drafting. (A later MSCS at Stanford was 100% CS. And, pre machine learning, did not involve a single floating point multiply. Lots of number theory, no differential equations or statistics.)