College/University Degrees

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Real engineering problems are too open-ended to be taught in school - you can only learn to solve them through practice. So, you might say that my "real" education in engineering hasn't begun yet.

[sunnyside]

Real engineering problems are too open-ended to be taught in school - you can only learn to solve them through practice. So, you might say that my "real" education in engineering hasn't begun yet.

School is very relevant towards engineering (at least ECE), in that it gives you the core understanding you'll need. You can't just "pick up" the stuff in advanced math classes.

That said you'll want to get some of the specific knowledge relevant to the workplace. Which is a why a good internship or two is very very useful.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Real engineering problems are too open-ended to be taught in school - you can only learn to solve them through practice. So, you might say that my "real" education in engineering hasn't begun yet.

School is very relevant towards engineering (at least ECE), in that it gives you the core understanding you'll need. You can't just "pick up" the stuff in advanced math classes.

That said you'll want to get some of the specific knowledge relevant to the workplace. Which is a why a good internship or two is very very useful.

Oh, it's certainly not useless, and one couldn't jump into engineering these days without it (they'd be hopelessly lost), but the practical application of the book knowledge must be learned through experience.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

An Associate's in Culinary Arts from Mcintosh College.

[IanKennedy]

But that's true to some extent with any degree. If we take on a new programmer we don't only look to qualifications, we need to know that they can actually work well in the real world. All the degree tells you is that they are able to learn in a structured environment and pass exams. There is often a large difference between that and real world ability.

Actually that's particularily true for programmers. I think the best quote on the subject was "In computer science it isn't what you learn in school, it's what you learn in spite of it".

Now I'm a computer engineer turned nanoscience electrophysics/thermodynamics guy. But from what I'd done with CS as part of my program I'll believe that's very very true.

True

Though programs may vary. They were still teaching us Fortran when they really should have gotten us straight into Visual Basic. Or at least gotten even the ECEs there fast. Though I guess it works out for me well enough since mostly I code simulations, and those probably would honestly work best in Fortran.

Actually if you want simulations then the best thing to use is something like S-Plus, which is designed to do do such things with very little code.

[Granitehewer]

Bsc hons Applied Biology
Bsc hons Psychology

[Bryan Moore]

Bsc hons Applied Biology
Bsc hons Psychology

And a minor in disappearing for weeks on end!

[Mikey]

I think he has PhD. in that.

[Granitehewer]

lol bry,did you get my facebook message?
ps mikey, yo moma! lol

[Bryan Moore]

lol bry,did you get my facebook message?
ps mikey, yo moma! lol

Not in a long time. When did you facebook message me?

[Granitehewer]

yonks ago,shall do again at some point as need your multitudinous repertoire of woman-laying skills

[Grundig]

BM in Trombone Performance, working on an Master's in Composition. Which I always misspell as compostion, and I often wonder if it's not more accurate to just leave it that way.

[rizulli]

I will be graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachleor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering this coming April.

No plans on doing a masters for sometime. I've been in school too long.

[Tsukiyumi]

I will be graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachleor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering this coming April.

No plans on doing a masters for sometime. I've been in school too long.

Sweet. That's an important field. You should take a few months off to clear your head after that much f*cking school.

[Mikey]

I will be graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachleor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering this coming April.

No plans on doing a masters for sometime. I've been in school too long.

Congrats, and welcome!