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.
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.
Most young men have learned empirical engineering by the time they reach engineering school.
Tree huts, rope swings, fires, fire crackers, shooting, baseballs, footballs, running, jumping, climbing, destruction of what not, hammers, nails, pliers, bicycles, fist fights, wrestling, swimming, diving, fishing, rowing, canoeing, model building, model destruction, wood blocks, chemistry sets, go-carts, minibikes, tinker toys, Lego's, puppy dog tails — are merely a few of the boyhood experiences that constitute the prerequisites to Engineering 101.
I'm sorry, but My Little Pony is not on the list.
