Re:It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science
by Balgair on Saturday May 16, 2015 @02:02PM
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I mean, nowadays, if you have an idea of the job you are going into in a STEM field you are usually kidding yourself (exception being sons and daughters whose parents own a business or have another secure job type). Heck, many times the stuff you learned in the 1st year is irrelevant or has changed by the 4th year.
For instance, how many 2 terminal linear circuit components are there? 3 right? Resistor, capacitor, inductor.
Wrong. There is a 4th, the memristor, and those are available today (http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Panasonic/MN101LR05DXW/?...). Now this particular example is not that big, but it speaks to the variety and rate of change in an undergrad course set these days. You have to be able to change, and change a lot. Everything thing you learn has an asterisk next to it. it never really did not, but you have to talk about those things now in class, not just sweep them under the rug.
If you think you know what is going on after university, you are now very naive. I'd say, most of the kids at least know this now, that they are not going to have a career in one company, but many, and in a lot of different fields too. EE will bleed into neuroscience and geology and ME into bioengineering and FDA food stuff.
For instance, how many 2 terminal linear circuit components are there? 3 right? Resistor, capacitor, inductor.
Wrong. There is a 4th, the memristor, and those are available today (http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Panasonic/MN101LR05DXW/?...). Now this particular example is not that big, but it speaks to the variety and rate of change in an undergrad course set these days. You have to be able to change, and change a lot. Everything thing you learn has an asterisk next to it. it never really did not, but you have to talk about those things now in class, not just sweep them under the rug.
If you think you know what is going on after university, you are now very naive. I'd say, most of the kids at least know this now, that they are not going to have a career in one company, but many, and in a lot of different fields too. EE will bleed into neuroscience and geology and ME into bioengineering and FDA food stuff.