Posted on 07/19/2022 10:23:31 AM PDT by ShadowAce
We called it “Difficult Equations”.
Twinkle Twinkle little star.
E=IR
I had already taken all of my calculus and physics in community college and then went on to university. I only needed DE and Statistics to finish all my math requirements for my Civil Degree. It had been 5 years since I had finished my last calculus class. My first semester was DE. I could follow along in class, but at home looking at that those problems, I was absolutely lost.
I even tried to drop the class, but the Professor kept saying I was doing alright. on the 4 tests plus the final I got a B, C, C, D, and a D on the final. He told me afterward that it was my class participation and effort on the homework that kept him from flunking me. I apologized to him for being a complete and utter bonehead.
Yep. So did I.
Amen to that. I got my undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at UF. Requirements included “electives “ in EE, IE and a Research project. Add in courses in Nuclear Physics, Metallurgy and Differential Equations to go along with the Chemistry and Engineering courses. Didn’t leave much time for sleep.
And yes, I wore my slide ruler on my belt loop. Also, had a plastic pocket protector with pens, pencils, eraser stick and pocket ruler.
Good thing I was married already.
The company I worked at had the Network dept and Datacom lose half or more of their people because someone from India who became the IT manager decided to outsource to Microsoft and Oracle who use a lot of people in India and other countries.
You’d think that with this big push to electrify everything, EE’s would be a no brainer profession to shoot for.
Apparently not. Well, most them youts probably voted for Pedo Joe. So brains are not in abundance.
My Granny’s phone had a string.
Agreed.
Some of the EE subject areas — like computers — like electronics — have already seen their pen academic departments.
EE still requires more studies , classes too. Nearly all EE students take five years just for the bachelor degree —,-and many experts recommend a minimum of the MSEE for a proper foundation in the discipline.
Also if you’re giving away free tuition then include medicine and nursing
I sit here reading this well-written article, with a grin, and the satisfaction that I was part of an assemblage of various projects, careers, and upward progression.
In high school, I read Popular Electronics magazines, complete with theory, schemati, and parts
In the Air Force, as result of too many E-5’s with 5 years, post Vietnam, I was assigndd to radar maintenance.It was a time when the radar equipment I would be maintaining was transitioning from tubes to transistors.When my tour of duty ended, Iwas the Assistant Shop Chief for the radar calibratkon docks.
For the next 5 years, I was part of a team that worked on Stinger missiles, Standard missiles, Sparrow missiles, and the PHALANX CIWS.
The pinnacle of all that wss my career as a vovt QA with aerospace, electronics, and NASA credentials.
You and I might be matched bookends. I design PCBs with uPs, and then write the software for them. I’m retired, but still have “clients”.
I was also a physics major. I also majored in CS, with plenty of EE thrown in. Since I make PCBs and write software for various control and measuring instruments, everything helped. Physics is pretty central to most I do. I’m retired but still have too many clients.
And the modern EE degree IS COMPUTER SCIENCE for the most part. You build an automated pilot for a sailboat, the bulk of it is the control program written in machine language for the microcontroller.
An EE can be a computer scientist, but a CS can’t be an EE.
We had a guy named Dr. Wolcin who was a super-bright math guy who taught DQ. Received a doctorate in math as a third year undergrad.
He knew it so well he taught it like he was teaching us how to bowl.
1. Here’s how to do the problems, don’t worry about why.
2. Now that you can do the problems and all the variations, here’s how you use it in real life.
3. Here’s the test, no surprises since you know how to bowl.
On the ‘real life’ days, no books and no writing instruments. Just watch and learn. You don’t need notes.
DOD would pay this guy on a contract basis to solve really hard math problems. Had a safe in his house and everything. He’d tell DOD it would take a couple of months to crack it.
He’d go home, sit by the pool and do the problem in a couple of afternoons, then put the finished work in his safe and deliver it in two months. Got paid stupid money for it.
Well, those few who do go into it - fabrication, actually making things - will be very very well remunerated.
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