Glasgow would be good! 60 miles up the road! he could get home weekends to clean my car
It would probably jump with 3 phaseOne of the "bright" EE students wanted to know if he could jump his car using an extension cord?
At least he asked.
Break's my heart to see something i worked hard for to obtain, and actually meant something special (i did mine in 1993), has now become a commodity to be brought and sold. Only the very best of university's, such as St Andrews, Oxford,Cambridge, MIT over there and a few other's , are in a position where they can apply strict criteria for entrance.
I missed this earlier, it's a valid point. My situation is slightly different to most people, i own a business and i also work for other's, either as a consultant, or on odd occasion's i will do paid 'favor's' for universities and the royal society. Somehow i have also been put on a, "ethic's advisory panel". This fortunately dosnt take much of my time, but i do get to see alot of companies, i also speak with alot of senior management.All this presupposes, however, that those doing the hiring are themselves qualified to discern the education/talent/experience needed for the job at hand.
This reminds me of my time at university. I did not get a scholarship back then and have to take loans from the school to pay the tuition fees and worked for a few years after graduation to pay back. Worked hard to earn my degree, and even harder on modules where I really had an interest in. Most of my programming/hardware knowledge nowadays has been self-taught, using basic knowledge I acquired from a C programming course at university, a digital electronics course which taught me to flash LEDs using 555 timer and that 5V TTL is digital 1,and another PIC micro-controller course where we used a serial JDM programmer to build a remotely controlled toy car. Every debug attempt was a struggle as the chip needed to be removed from the breadboard and placed into the programmer socket. Nowadays with the PICKit it's much easier.
It also breaks my heart now to see some young PhDs in electronics who can't even tell what an oscilloscope is. We have a few at office and one day a colleague who has a PhD degree in electronics asked me if that device is a computer-controlled soldering station because the probes look like soldering irons to him. Yet many of those are being paid high salary by their school. Is this a waste of taxpayers' money if those present or future PhDs don't have the required expertise to join the workplace? For sure 99% of the papers that they wrote would never turn into something meaningful to life, other than being filed by their school and contributing to part of the statistics to measure the school's success or ranking, whatever you call it.
I prefer to think of it as a means of having two lovely daughters (one is an Appellate Court Judge, other is a Chemist), five grandchildren, a career in electronics where I published scores of papers, have my name on dozens of patents, taught thousands of students, helped hundreds of newbies on these forums, contributed at the highest possible tax rates to fund our government.Phd in "draft dodging"
Very few of my generation (boomer), at least by my admittedly non-reproducible data collection method (mostly in EM Clubs, on cocktail napkins), begrudged those that managed to avoid the draft (as I did not).I prefer to think of it as a means of having two lovely daughters (one is an Appellate Court Judge, other is a Chemist), five grandchildren, a career in electronics where I published scores of papers, have my name on dozens of patents, taught thousands of students, helped hundreds of newbies on these forums, contributed at the highest possible tax rates to fund our government.
Very few of my generation (boomer), at least by my admittedly non-reproducible data collection method (mostly in EM Clubs, on cocktail napkins), begrudged those that managed to avoid the draft (as I did not).
Someone has yet to show me a worth while war, funny how those that start them, never die in them, then have the cheek to thank the families for there sacrifice. Should be a universal law, if you start a war then the prime minister/president, king or whatever. Should lead the battle. I can think of more than a few wars we would have avoided
Should be a universal law, if you start a war then the prime minister/president, king or whatever. Should lead the battle. I can think of more than a few wars we would have avoided.
Many universities now outsource project management, and hire consultants to oversee the technical aspects. Dont knock it! i make good money out of this
Now if i take my living out the equation, something is seriously wrong when a PhD program, needs to hire outside help to oversee research, it is a direct indication of the quality of there teaching staff.
Not every University does this of course, as Nigel will tell you. at some universities things are very different.
The main problem is, some superiors/supervisors who lead postgraduate projects don't have (any) knowledge on that project and let their students fumble on them. The worst part is, that some of these refuse/reluctant to help at all and only concerned about
Basically what you are seeing in your new workers is the results of our modern day diploma mills. The guys put in their 4 - 5 years and many $10's of thousands of dollars of money and in return they gt a piece of paper that says they are hireable. The rest of their relevant education to make them actual useful workers falls to the fools that hire them.
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