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Engineering degrees require access to expensive equipment and software. Autodidacticism won't magically make a gamma-ray spectrometer appear in your basement.
by neutronicus 14y ago
Engineering degrees require access to expensive equipment and software. Autodidacticism won't magically make a gamma-ray spectrometer appear in your basement.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoHow many undergraduate college students ever interact with a gamma-ray spectrometer? Indeed, how many ever come into contact with any equipment that is outside the realm of access to an individual studying on their own? Many perhaps, but as a percentage of all college graduates, not that much. Not even all STEM majors require such specialty equipment, and STEM students are a relative minority in college enrollments.