Rigor mortis - On the hetero-patriarchal trappings of “academic rigor” at Purdue

The New Criterion ^ | January 2018 | Robert Youngman

[NorthMountain]

Donna Riley, the head of the engineering department at Purdue [Correction: her actual title is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education], has put the world on notice that “rigor” is a dirty word.

That parenthetical correction is a big deal. "Engineering Education" is a cluster-fxxx of political correctness poisoning the minds of future high school science teachers. It is NOT an Engineering School teaching future engineers.

[bk1000]

Why don’t the people who work with this moron just declare her an idiot and move on? Is every leftist or femenist brain fart worthy of consideration? It would be as simple as “With all due respect, madam, that is stupid.”

[WayneS]

Rigor may be a defining tool, revealing how structural forces of power and privilege operate to exclude men of color and women, students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ [love the plus sign!] people, first-generation and low-income students, and non-traditionally-aged students.

Bullsh!t.

You either know physics or you do not.

You either know math or you do not.

You either know statics, dynamics, mechanics, hydraulics, etc, or you do not.

You either know thermodynamics or you do not.

If you base an engineering design on your knowledge of the "structural forces of power and privilege" then someone is going to get injured or killed.

This is a real shame. Purdue used to be a top-notch engineering school.

[Stevenc131]

You won’t really have to worry about her students designing bridges or buildings. With their level of knowledge they’ll be fetching tea for their Chinese bosses or cleaning up after meetings in the conference room.

[MAexile]

Donna Riley, the head of the engineering department at Purdue [Correction: her actual title is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education], has put the world on notice that “rigor” is a dirty word.

Hmmm, Rigor head!

No, that doesn't sound right.

Rigor you!

Nope, not working for me.

[Pecos]

Well, at least we now know who not to hire.

[NorthMountain]

Why don’t the people who work with this moron just declare her an idiot and move on?

Because they're all morons in the "Engineering Education" department.

[rdl6989]

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Somerset Steel Erection
 

[WayneS]

It is NOT an Engineering School teaching future engineers.

I'm not so sure about that. This appears to be directly connected to their college of engineering.

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/faculty/2010/100308JamiesonHaghighi.html

[FreedomPoster]

You get it. Engineer, I presume?

Real scientific inquiry and use of the fruits thereof has brought many life-changing advancements and benefits to the West. Fools like this woman would throw that away for identity politics. To Hell with her.

[NorthMountain]

We went through this a month or so ago. Yeah, it’s a department in their school of engineering. The idiots’ department. They’re training future high school teachers. That’s almost as frightening as if they were training actual future engineers.

[JimRed]

...the hetero-patriarchal trappings of “academic rigor”...

So if you're a woman or homosexual you are incapable of performing the necessary work to achieve competence in the field? Got it.

[WayneS]

Based on the description at Purdues’s web-site it appears to me that this “department” is involved in the education of first-year (freshman) engineering students.

This would be the curriculum which used to be called “Fundamentals of Engineering” back when I was a student in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, several decades ago.

[WayneS]

Yes.

[NorthMountain]

Academics at the College of Engineering.

I missed this particular paragraph last time around:

First-Year Engineering

The School of Engineering Education's First-Year Engineering Program is the entry point for all beginning engineering students. The mission of this student-oriented program is to recruit, advise, teach, and retain outstanding students for Purdue's College of Engineering. First-year engineering classes are taught in Purdue's i2i Learning Laboratory which offers an innovative and hands-on learning environment to prepare first-year engineering students for real world challenges.

That's a problem, no doubt.

[aquila48]

Bookmark under more insanity.

[WayneS]

I guess we can hope that the professors who teach these kids during years 2 through 4 are more demanding. But we should not have to hope, we should be assured that academic rigor will be demanded of any student in any scientific degree program.

[BlueLancer]

Donna Riley, the head of the engineering department at Purdue [Correction: her actual title is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education], has put the world on notice that “rigor” is a dirty word.

RIGOR!

Isn't that the "N" word with a speech impediment?