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Professor warns: “Social justice warriors” are destroying engineering
Bogus Times ^ | 8/4/17 | Kim Parkhurst

Posted on 08/04/2017 10:12:38 PM PDT by BogusTimes

Indrek Wichman, a mechanical engineer professor at Michigan State University, has eyed a troubling trend of social justice warriors making their way through the humanities and social sciences and, to his despair, they now have their sights set on leveling their destruction on engineering.

WichmanHaving spent 30 years teaching mechanical engineering, Wichman acknowledges things have changed dramatically and is concerned that “feelings” and “micro-aggressions” have taken a predominant role, much to the detriment of the hard sciences.

“The world we engineers envisioned as young students is not quite as simple and straightforward as we had wished,” he states in a paper in IntellectualTakeout.org, “because a phalanx of social justice warriors, ideologues, egalitarians, and opportunistic careerists has ensconced itself in America’s colleges and universities. The destruction they have caused in the humanities and social sciences has now reached to engineering.”

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To: Telepathic Intruder
“Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many who enter through it.” The goal of social justice warriors is to destroy whatever they don’t understand. “Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but in airing their own opinions”. As they sow, so shall they reap.

Exactly.

Most of the SJWs are from the lower, less rigorous and intellectual rungs of academia: Journalism, political science, sociology, philosophy etc., as are their students. The would love to invade and conquer engineering, sciences and math, and make it more inclusive.

Science has to a large extent, already been invaded (i.e. psuedoscientist AlGore and the global warming scam).

21 posted on 08/05/2017 4:16:47 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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To: aquila48
Remember China’s cultural of the 60s and 70s? Now we’re them and they are us.


22 posted on 08/05/2017 4:32:47 AM PDT by poconopundit (CNN is... Corruption News Neglected)
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To: blackdog
“The professors are told to pass them. They do. We have a female black lesbian electrical engineer intern who does not know what a motor starter looks like? Nor will she open a cabinet to service one. She thinks gearboxes are motors.”

Yep... I had rookie chemical engineer working for me about 8 years ago that pretty much fit that description. Lasted one year then quit just ahead of being layed off for performance. She took a new job with a city on the east coast working in their city engineering department. Not much of an engineering job for a ChE graduate.

I haven't since and probably will not in the future even interview a new graduate from that university. Glowing recommendations from professors, respectable GPA, internships, etc. Bogus. I had to show her how to do things that came straight out of freshman chemistry.

23 posted on 08/05/2017 4:33:19 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: BogusTimes

Kalkulous be rasist.


24 posted on 08/05/2017 4:38:17 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Hootowl99
I teach an engineering course part time at a state university. As part of the ADA we have to offer those students with a "qualified disability" extra exam time, note takers, or a quiet space to take their exams.

Still the university is pressuring the college to increase its pass rate. Too many are failing out of engineering and the bureaucrats don't want the money train to stop. So we are looking at ways to further coddle these kids who lack the intelligence or ambition to complete their degrees.

More unqualified engineering grads headed your way!

25 posted on 08/05/2017 4:47:17 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

In 1972, I entered an engineering school with 500 other freshmen.

In 1976, at graduation, only 125 received their degrees.

75% of the entering class did not graduate.

Engineering is a very tough discipline.

Are the completion rates similar today?


26 posted on 08/05/2017 4:50:59 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Hootowl99

If they’re failing, it must be the fault of the racist professor.


27 posted on 08/05/2017 4:52:33 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: exit82

For the seventies that sounds about right. I was at NJIT, where the attrition rate for chemical engineering was 87%. I was in electrical, where the attrition was 67%.


28 posted on 08/05/2017 5:00:12 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: BogusTimes

So the buzzwords and bullshyte regurgitated by edumacated poodle herders fails to compile into anything functionally useful.

Imagine that.

Just hire a contractor - we’ll SALVAGE it for ya!

;-D


29 posted on 08/05/2017 5:04:31 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: BogusTimes

Socialists destroy everything.


30 posted on 08/05/2017 5:10:14 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: doorgunner69
How in hell did they make it past algebra/geometry/trigonometry, physics, chemistry?

Affirmative Action!!

Watched it all play out starting back in the 70s in the Bell System, courtesy of the Nixon DoJ.

31 posted on 08/05/2017 5:11:20 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: doorgunner69

Because those subjects are racist they will be dropped.


32 posted on 08/05/2017 5:14:37 AM PDT by xp38
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

As long as real work and effort are required, certain groups will always be under-represented in the STEM fields. Rather than keep high standards, they’ll just lower them so more minorities and females can pretend they have STEM degrees - and woe to any company that expects knowledge from them!


33 posted on 08/05/2017 5:20:16 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: doorgunner69

“How in hell did they make it past algebra/geometry/trigonometry, physics, chemistry?”

That is why a new major, engineering education is being created. That being said, that major belongs in the education department at colleges and universities, not in the engineering departments. In general education majors don’t spend much time taking STEM courses.


34 posted on 08/05/2017 5:21:10 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: The_Media_never_lie

There will always be income disparity as long as people with skills/knowledge earn more than those with neither, and as long as some people work while others won’t.

As with all disadvantaged tokens, this is not about offering education or job opportunities; it is simply about paying a disadvantaged minority (black, Hispanic, and/or female) to pretend they are engineers. Actual work isn’t even part of the equation.

Licensing exams are key to ending this façade; now they just want to make those easier as well.


35 posted on 08/05/2017 5:24:12 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Hootowl99
She took a new job with a city on the east coast working in their city engineering department.

Now there is a lawsuit waiting to happen....

36 posted on 08/05/2017 5:29:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: BogusTimes; Admin Moderator

You excerpted your own blog. Why not post the entire thing instead of stealing from FR? Why blog pimp against the rules of FR??


37 posted on 08/05/2017 5:30:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: Maine Mariner

Of course; many major in education because they CAN’T do math/science. That is why public schools today are so useless; when someone who really earned a STEM degree is paid the same as someone with a “black studies” degree (due to union work rules), they simply opt for the private sector - and a “black studies” graduate ends up pretending to teach math and/or science.

I can’t tell you how much of my children’s schoolwork is self-taught via internet (at the suggestion of the teachers themselves); you visit a website complete with graphics and listen to a man describe (in clear, concise English) various calculations and such.


38 posted on 08/05/2017 5:32:35 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: mewzilla; Rummyfan

Speaking of engineering...


39 posted on 08/05/2017 5:37:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: exit82

—that (25%) was the expected graduation rate when I started engineering school in 1958—


40 posted on 08/05/2017 5:40:02 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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