[sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Veronica
Merryfield<veronica.merryfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> The consensus boiled down to what does someone do outside of work and what
> did they play with or do as a child.

Absolutely. Where I work, we look for people who have a passion for
what they do. We look for people who are tinkerers and who have
hobbies that get them thinking and doing and making things. Of course,
education helps, but it doesn't tell the whole story. I'm constantly
surprised by things like people with EE degrees who don't own a
breadboard or an oscilloscope. I've run into recent EE grads who don't
even know what a breadboard is. WTF?!? Why bother with four years of
grueling classes to end up doing something you don't really enjoy?

Tim (tinkerer) Servo
-- 
"Sire, the church of God is an anvil that has worn out many hammers."
- H.L. Hastings