On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:56:49 -0800, josephkk
wrote:

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:15:17 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:


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Not being an EE or any other kind of E has nothing to do with being a
professional but, of course, in your effort to belittle your
detractors you choose the ad hominem attack because if you were to
argue logically you'd lose face and, Lord knows, we can't have that.

Isn't a degree from Tulane, ranked 112th in engineering schools...

http://tinyurl.com/d8aupcy

sort of like a degree from a diploma mill... worthless ?:-}

...Jim Thompson


Actually the real value of the degree is directly related to the interest
and effort put into learning the material. After a few years working it
is nearly irrelevant except for getting past fool personnel departments.

?-)

First of all, you need an 4-year EE degree so that people, like employers, will
take you seriously. It doesn't much matter where it comes from.

But yes, some of the courses are important, and are things you're not likely to
pick up on your own with any rigor. Physics, thermo, calculus, circuit theory,
dimensional analysis, signals-and-systems, control theory, stuff like that. JT
is immensely proud of his MIT degree, even though he never learned, or has
forgotten, a lot of those basics. It's idiotic to think that going to MIT is
something to be especially proud of. I suspect that I learned more than he did,
and I'm sure that I had more fun.

Tulane was founded in 1834; MIT in 1861. So much for "diploma mills."


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