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To: BenLurkin
The problem of developing a work force of engineers is a pipeline issue, beginning with too few students willing to study math and science, McKeon said. Only half the students who do pursue such subjects in college actually graduate with those degrees, he said.

Yup, the "physics barrier" is a bitch, and one you can't PC your way through (e.g., no finals consisting of essays on your feelings about electron flow).

5 posted on 12/03/2006 11:53:36 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: randog

too many lawyers, liars and liberals coming out of our schools


7 posted on 12/03/2006 11:57:41 AM PST by Nat Turner (DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME)
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To: randog
Yup, the "physics barrier" is a bitch, and one you can't PC your way through (e.g., no finals consisting of essays on your feelings about electron flow).

Unfortunately, PC is the order of the day at places like Lockheed Martin.

28 posted on 12/03/2006 1:33:26 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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