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Anon is an engineer (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love engineering, I hated University. The framework of school is not for everyone and reading 300 pages of complex stuff every week for 4 years is boring to death and it isn't for me, and for a lot of people.

School of all levels caters to one type of learning, and not everyone is good with that style.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I experienced a wide array of learning types. Some profs rely on student-led learning from book readings and assignments, some relied on in-person lectures, some worked through examples in class and had similar examples on homework along with challenge problems that extend the examples in new ways, one had us use mathcad to build a model of increasing complexity with each lecture.

Saying university caters to one type is an absurd reduction. Unless that one type is “learning”.

Engineering is a skilled trade with a long list of topics that have to be covered. You don’t have to be an engineer, you could do a two year tech school or just DIY and roll your own, prove yourself through your work to get into engineering-like jobs.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Good for you. My experience is that the program was geared towards people that would continue to masters and PhDs.

I had an exam every two weeks, hundreds of pages every week to read and the professors weren't really available for us, and teaching assistant didn't really give a shit.

The labs were mostly just math labs, with really specific applications.

My only real project was the end of program project that lasted a bit short of 2 years. And the professors that were supposed to help us and support us told us that the project would fail for a good part of a year and a half. And when the project was a success and gave exposure to the school, the same professors that gave us shit for almost the entirety of the project took the credit for a successful project.

If you wanted to do hands on engineering, you had to join extra curricular teams.

My opinion on the matter is certainly tainted by my awful experience, but I did a program to become a technician in my field before going to engineering school and it was much more appropriate for my learning style.