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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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  • The key to all technical vocations is the need to learn new things on the job.

    I was constantly doing web searches, library searches and a lot of reading to keep up with the changes in technology.

    Technical education is a life long pursuit.

    If you think you are done when you graduate, then you just do not understand how fast things are changing.

    Every day is finals week.

  • in reply to DAB

    So, are you suggesting that a degree course should entail a refresher/update course every year? Relaxed

  • in reply to dougw

    In my old job, learning was a continuous process.

    I am not sure a refresher or update course would be able to keep you current, depending upon your industry.

    In Aerospace, we were under a constant state of change as new technology appeared daily.

  • in reply to DAB

    It might stop you from forgetting useful tools though... the stuff I learned and forgot in five years after leaving college is greater than the stuff I [re]learned and use daily ten years later. And it only took me an hour to learn ten years later. 

    Part of the degree is to show "you are capable of learning and understanding this even if you forgot it" but actually, I passed my university exams parrot fashion. I only understood it later on. 

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  • in reply to DAB

    It might stop you from forgetting useful tools though... the stuff I learned and forgot in five years after leaving college is greater than the stuff I [re]learned and use daily ten years later. And it only took me an hour to learn ten years later. 

    Part of the degree is to show "you are capable of learning and understanding this even if you forgot it" but actually, I passed my university exams parrot fashion. I only understood it later on. 

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