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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by seattle_spring on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:25AM (#32148504)
Yep. I was so stoked on EE in high school. Took the first EE course in college and got as far away from it as possible after that. Subject matter was interesting, but the professor took every ounce of fun out.
Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by bradfa on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:10AM (#32149952)
I have a BS EE, my day job now is lower level software/firmware - almost entirely with Linux these days but have done a fair share of bare metal, too. My favorite course in university was my 2nd year circuits course, the professor who taught it had a research grant to study how to better teach electrical engineering to undergrads, and it showed. I vividly remember demonstrations and labs we did in that class even 20 years later.

I imagine part of the problem is there's just fewer EEs than there are CS grads, so the EEs who end up teaching might be the best at that in their field but since the field of CS grads is so much larger you generally get better teachers in CS. I feel there's also been a huge push to make CS approachable over the past 30 years and it shows, it's easy to find great teachers both online and in universities for CS. It's much harder to find good teachers for EE.

Knowing EE or CS does not make a good teacher. Being a good teacher is significantly more than simply knowing the material.