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The real myth is that schools actually prepare you for specific problems on the job, as you have asserted. I have helped hire people before and I would say that
by mjfl 8y ago
The real myth is that schools actually prepare you for specific problems on the job, as you have asserted. I have helped hire people before and I would say that schools do very little good specialized training. Almost everything learned in engineering school is going to be at best tangential to the problems actually experienced in industry, to the point where there is little difference between an engineering degree and a physics degree, especially in a field that is close to physics (electrical engineering, radio engineering).
- robertAngst 8y agoDo physics students have to learn about electrical components? In Chemical Engineering, I had to take 2 electrical classes and I learned what math I needed and what components exist.
- imtringued 8y agoI think that is a bit extreme but I agree with one thing. If school does not teach job related knowledge but it somehow makes it easier to learn skills on the job later on then isn't it actually just an indirect measure of motivation or intelligence? The advantage formal education confers is merely making those stand out among the other applicants.