IBM PC Server 500

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Thu Feb 21 20:47:42 2002

At 12:18 AM 2/22/02 +0000, you wrote:
>> Boss and I talked about what he have seen from college's churning
>> out students filled with knowledge but very little troubleshooting
>> skills *especially* at component level and wrong type of skills to
>> boot! The area students trained with were for peecee area.
>
>Oh, don't get me started on this (it's off-topic anyway...). I've met
>graduate engineers who presumably are great with some complex equation
>that I wouldn't have a clue about, but who are totally clueless when it
>comes to anything practical. They're the sort of people who ask for 362.8
>ohm resistors to use as LED current limiters, who can't estimate
>component values for a simple RC filter, who can't solder anything
>properly, and so on. Oh well... :-(
>-tony

I have a theory about this. Hardware hacking (meaning anything
hands-on) is like learning to drive a car. You don't do it before
you're 17 -- you never learn to do it properly :-/ . And of
course, most ee majors meet hardware in their first lab course after
they're too old.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Thu Feb 21 2002 - 20:47:42 GMT