Re: EE educations, worldwide?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:30:13 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:57:11 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:59:56 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Germany has good ones as well but they are also tough. They had (have?)
the two-strike law: Fail a test twice and you are out, in my days banned

from any university there for the same career path. Maxwell's stuff

almost got me. About 75%-80% of students at my university (RWTH Aachen)
did not make it into engineering because they either threw in the towel
or got "weeded out".

I wonder if all that rigor is conducive to producing good design
engineers.


Not likely. Circuit design is an art.


Not according to one prof back then. He said that by the time we are 40
discrete design would be obsolete. It'll be all chips. I had a major
ROFL episode when he said that.

The sad part is that many students believed such guys. So they migrated
towards computer science and so on. The result is that one client needed
1-1/2 years to find a useful analog engineer (from outside the country).
Yesterday I had a chat with a head hunter about a similar situation and
it looks a lot more dire there because nobody wants to move into the Bay
Area unless they are paid a Rockefeller level salary. I hope they'll
wise up and consider consultants bacause chances are they'll sit there
two years from now and still stare at the walls.

[...]

Not only will I not move, I insist on off-site operation (*)... I do
the designing in my office, with my tools, with occasional visits to
the customer's location.

(*) Right now I'm consulting "Z" using NoMachine's virtual remote
desktop into "Z's" Cadence tools (gag me with a spoon ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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