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IME that's all true. To say that they need to do more to create a more positive environment for research engineers though depends on the perspective. From the
by cameldrv 4y ago
IME that's all true. To say that they need to do more to create a more positive environment for research engineers though depends on the perspective.
From the perspective of the university and the PI, they can just get a graduate student to do the work for 1/5 the cost.
- BeetleB 4y ago> From the perspective of the university and the PI, they can just get a graduate student to do the work for 1/5 the cost. That is what they do. However, some projects grow in scale where a grad student cannot handle it well, or if they try, it will be a detriment to their research. To give you an example, only one of the PhD students (non-CS engineering) in my group and the ones around me had taken data structures or algorithms - yet everyone's thesis was "computational" (i.e. numerical computation, etc). None of the advisors would appreciate their students going off and taking serious CS courses. When a research team wants to go to the next level, they need to hire someone with better SW skills.