I’m speaking in the context of the horror story of the USAF engineering tech hires who proved so spectacularly incompetent, so the entire category of candidates had the kibosh put on them. The prospective hires should have to take a test to show such things as being able to follow book formulas. So anyone who “graduated” because, say, some dean owed some generous alumnus a favor wouldn’t be able to spoil it for the rest.
We both know that there is an EIT Certification put forth by the various states for Mechanical and Electrical engineers.
I’m not aware of there is a similar “Engineer-In-Training” Certificate for Engineering Technology graduates. If so, I agree that this would be a good “Gating Function” in the hiring process.
That is horrible. To graduate unequipped to perform in your career is downright dangerous and explains a lot of the problems we are having.
I’m very careful in hiring. I have people write me a quick essay.
My husband worked in a place where he inherited a division with workers who had reading comprehension issues and could not write. He had to carefuly check everything until he could revamp that division staff. They would give him ebonics stuff to sign his name to! They had college degrees.