We hired a PhD electrical engineer. He didn’t know that you could put a diode in backwards. What are they teaching in school these days? Not everything can be solved with a computer simulation.
Let me urge everyone on my list, if you haven’t done so, get Charles Murray’s book, “Coming Apart.” Merely the “bubble test” he has in there is worth the book. Give that to your friends. I think they would find it fun, and probably revealing.
This book shows how we have created these “superzips”-—zip codes that are entirely dominated by Ivy League grads and people in the top 5% of American wealth holders, and they do not see ANYONE else in their daily lives except to order a coffee or drop off dry cleaning.
Wow.
(For those who don't know, the primary purpose of a diode is to control current in one direction.)
Is he Indian? They’re usually even worse,
You mean current only flows one direction through a diode? I think I learned that in 5th grade.
Back in the 60s, dad did a lot of hiring for the advanced spacecraft projects he led. I fondly remember him saying that most PhDs he interviewed “didn’t know which end of a hammer to pick up.”
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They spend their time learning the “why” of complex formulas and developing a thesis about some micro-nano sub topic that doesn’t apply to 99.9% of actual work needs.
The best engineers for daily engineering aren’t PhD’s.
Probably because they are doing away with ‘male’ and ‘female’ thingies....
When I was in Engineeering school a million years ago, there were many students that only chose EE for the $$$. So many had not touched a soldering iron or resistor until they got into the required labs. I’ve been melting solder since age 9.
We hired a PhD electrical engineer.
A former boss, also a PhD electrical engineer, once told me he had to go home to meet the dryer repair man.
He described the problem and I asked if he checked the dryer door switch. He seemed to have no idea how a dryer worked.
It was the door switch.
Pretty lousy interview process, I guess.
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Years ago I designed and built a rather large mother-in-law house, marshalling the labor from family and friends. I made the mistake of enlisting an electrical engineer friend to run the electrical wiring. The dummy fished the Romex through the conduit one circuit at a time, scratching the insulation. I had to redo it myself.
Years ago in my HR days when given a choice of hiring a degreed EE or a junior to mid-level former NCO who’d been through the Navy’s electrical schools, I’d take the former NCO any day.
They ran circles around EEs, had super work ethic, didn’t get involved in shop politics and our clients loved them, at least based on their repeated requests for on-site work. Any one of them was worth 3 or 4 EEs almost any day.
We hired, and HR highballed her, a black woman as a software engineer whose undergraduate work was so-so, probably a 2.75 GPA, but had a 4.0 GPA in her Master's work, apparently a "late bloomer". She didn't know a stack from a queue and certainly couldn't write to code to implement either.
My construction company hired a double-degree Architect/Structural Engineer. He could not legibly or accurately perform a written quantity survey of toilet partitions and urinal screens from the plans on a multistory office building. Wasn’t legible, close to accurate or understandable enough to even attempt to show him his own errors.
Nice video that explains diodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNi6WY7WKAI
Experience with hands on actual build using discrete actual parts is what they are not getting. Schools save money by using simulation software. Blown damaged circuits done by learning students are expensive to replace so they “simulate” where they can.
They aren’t being taught welding and are not given hard wiring experience. Also various firms have unique in house products that might require designs that include “backward placed” diodes”; no school can anticipate and teach every real world application of electronic theory out there. They can only give the basics and teach ongoing trends...the rest will be on the student to gain the experience and the firms will have to do the refining of knowledge.