Wired on Engineering Education

Scott Siddens, senior editor, sent me an email yesterday that
linked to an article on engineering education on Wired
magazine’s Website. The article, “Top
5 Reasons it Sucks to Be an Engineering Student,” by
Aaron Rowe, a Wired editor, is categorized as being
“humorous,” and to some degree it is, but there’s
more than a modicum of truth in his snarky post. There were a few
points that brought back some not-so-fun memories of my time in the
trenches. I ended up earning a B.Sc. in mathematics and
computer science, and a graduate degree in engineering, finding the
research-based graduate school curriculum more compatible with my
style of learning than the weed-them-out style of the undergraduate
program that I had enrolled in.

 What’s makes the Wired article compelling and really
worth visiting are the 100 or so comments that have been posted
beneath it in just a few days. Some support the article, others
decry it, and others simply provide war stories of their time in
engineering school.

So, this is just a heads up that this article exists and you
might want to check it out and contribute your own experiences and
perspectives. (Thank you, Scott, for the heads-up).

 Take care…