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There's a big problem with the bar graph in the article. They are lumping Engineering Technology together with Engineering and Information sciences in with Comp
by learc83 13y ago
There's a big problem with the bar graph in the article. They are lumping Engineering Technology together with Engineering
and Information sciences in with Computer Science.
Engineering Technology is completely different from Engineering, just like CIS is completely different from Computer Science.
Grouping those together is like grouping employment numbers for electrical engineers and electricians just because they have the same root word in their titles.
The article also talks about "foreign born students... crushing the homegrown talent." If they're talking about foreign born students at US universities I wouldn't say they are "crushing" US students at all. From what I've seen the reason so many foreign students are accepted has more to do with them paying way more tuition than in-state students than anything else.
- danzig13 13y agoI have an MIS degree and have had no trouble working alongside CS grads my entire career. Likewise for my family member with an Engineering Technology degree. I don't think there is that huge of a gap. It is still about getting your foot in the door and doing things on the job.
- learc83 13y ago>I have an MIS degree and have had no trouble working alongside CS grads my entire career. Sure, but how much of that has anything to do with your MIS degree. Sure there are CIS majors who can program, and there are high school dropouts who can program as well. But CS degrees teach you how to program while CIS degrees do not. They prepare you for two completely different fields. Employment figures for Software developers and IT people are very different. >Likewise for my family member with an Engineering Technology degree Engineering Technology is also a different field. Again, sure there are people with engineering tech degrees that work as engineers and are paid like engineers, but the vast majority do not.
- null_ptr 13y ago"foreign born" is such a sneaky word, too. They could just as well be American citizens.