As a Principle Engineer with 35 years of experience, I can say with 100% conviction that this statement, Colleges and Universities actually teach “critical thinking” skills is COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSH!T
Over the past 5 years I have taught a number of “critical thinking skills” workshops. I only agreed to this because I naively thought “how hard could this be?”. OMG, engineering graduates are utter MORONS!! They attack problems head on. They grab their theories and examples from class and attack the problem.
Granted they have ZERO practical experience, but they SHOULD be able to examine a problem BEFORE diving in. They NEVER examine more than one side of the problem. They dive in and have NO IDEA HOW DEEP THE WATER IS!!! The last intern I mentored fit this example. Nice kid, LOUSY ENGINEER, but he did know the 57 current genders and various pronouns. ENGINEERING, not so much.
I wonder how many other professions fit my example?
Are we screwed? ——— YES
Guess I’ll have to be more careful when driving over newly-built high bridges.
I would argue with my boss how his new idea might fail,
So he would ask if I supported him.
I said, if you see all the pros and cons, I will, 100%.