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Question of the Month: How To Keep EE Degree Programs Current?

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e14 Question of the Month

The world of work is changing fast. To produce graduates that have current and relevant job skills desired by top-notch employers, universities need to update ther EE programs and offer courses that provide new graduates with needed job skills. What job skills are the most important? You tell us by voting in our poll below.

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  • I chose other.  Lately I noticed that I am one of those people that needs to see to believe.  In the last few years I've been in the lab much more and it's really helped to cement certain concepts that had until now remained elusive.  In other words, seeing is believing.  Ironically when I think back to my schooling I didn't like labs because it felt like a race against the clock to collect all the results.... and then what I was left with was so messy that I had to rewrite everything afterwards.  I think it would be great if the labs were structured to have less overhead in terms of the write ups etc and focused more on discovery.

  • in reply to dang74

    A lot of labs have not been through an evolution like agile software has gone through. A revolution of thoughts.

    Rigidity (in processes, compliance, ...): is it an asset?
    Or is it an inhibitor? Is the value somewhere in the middle?
    Flexibility, is that an asset or a disturber? 
    Is avoiding any risk an asset. And is avoiding any risk actually avoiding each risk?
    Are rigid processes avoiding the risks that may occur? And is the cost higher than the impact?

    In software, economics have already decided (for the non-top-500 - those in the top 500 can be inefficient and survive - they can ignore reality because of budget) 

    Rigidity can only be efficient if it's challenged. Great detailed long term plans (those that every one praises at the begin of a project) are usually a pipe dream, unless they are adaptable and resilient to reality.

  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    In a sense I was saying, as you put it, 'rigidity is an inhibitor.'  Even the fixed semester schedule is a bummer.  Some flexibility to accommodate different methods of learning would be great.

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