On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 9:21:41 AM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 9:16:13 AM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Monday, December 26, 2016 at 4:44:38 PM UTC-5, Tommy Silva wrote:
On 12/26/2016 12:01 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Monday, December 26, 2016 at 10:41:22 AM UTC-5, FromTheRafters wrote:

Understanding Ohm's Law and/or Maxwell's equations may be a
prerequisite for your chosen profession, but that doesn't mean everyone
who knows them must also know how to wire household switches.
If you know them and really understand them, then there has to be
something wrong with you or how you were taught that you can have
a degree in EE and not be able to apply Ohms Law and the most
elementary of circuit principles to solve the problem of how a
switched outlet works. Good grief, has all of America gone dumb?
Some of you seem to think that the purpose of college and an EE degree
is to teach you how to do specific tasks. It's not. It's to teach
science, physics and engineering that you can then apply to all the
new things you encounter. That is what engineering is, the application
of science to actual, real world problems. What you are suggesting is
that colleges are there to train essentially robots, that can only deal
with that which they've explicitly been shown.

My neighbor is a EE. EEs are a special kind of stupid.

Maybe your neighbor got his degree in one of those colleges that some
here have apparently been to. Where they only educate you on how to
solve certain things they give you, instead of instructing on basic
principles so you can solve almost anything.

Another indication that you are really good at missing points.

If you got a degree in EE and claim that you need more instruction,
a special course in how to understand how a switched outlet works,
then you should ask for your money back. Sorry, but it is that simple.