I agree. True engineering skills are seldom subject to obsolescence and are only enhanced by experience.
Exactly true.
And experience almost always provides the opportunity for practicing engineers to upgrade their skills. Heck, they're the ones usually upgrading the state of the art !
But the poor graduates now are being pushed out of schools without a grasp of the fundamentals. They're being educated in what's trendy, and that can change overnight.
The disservice being done to these folks makes my blood boil.