Undergrad Brain Drain Of Engineers
from the liberal-arts-sounds-nice... dept
Many people in the US are getting worried that we're not training enough US engineers. First, a lot of students don't study engineering because they think it's too nerdy, but even worse is that many students who start studying engineering end up dropping out of programs. I'm not a big fan of forcing people to study what they're not interested in, or what won't be useful to them later in life, but it sounds like something might be wrong if so many people who were initially interested get turned off by the current process. Many schools are trying to change the engineering curriculum to include more creative and practical classes early on - rather than the standard theoretical classes.
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Engineering
Java is also part of the engineering major, but it sucks goats!!
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show me the money
basically--> Dilbert is right. We're a commodity and get treated like it. Who wants to be that after 4 years of suffering and toil. sure you can love the work, which is fine-- but if you're not content with coding at 5am eating Ho-Hos, why do it when your friend who creates nothing is on vacation in Tahoe?
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