On Friday, 2 March 2018 17:09:51 UTC, mechanic wrote:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 04:00:02 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave wrote:

Shouldn't this be part of a students education in your
establishment?

That depends on the course the studetns are doing the above as
computer science studetns how spend their time typing on
keyboards they want to do computer science.

Computers aren't assembled using soldering irons.

Very few products are.
But computerc science students do have to know about electricity and how things do get put togther in the real world that is the point.
They need to undersatand the problems bad connections make and such practical things.
I gave one student sandpaper to remove the enamal coating on wire he was using to build a speaker and he returned saying the wore just get disapearing he was not only removiong the enamal but continues until he had removed the copper too. This wire was 38 or 40 SWG so it didn't take much.
It;s a goofd idea that they get an idea of what soldering is too.