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Originally Posted by jpetito
Engineers are not necessarily what you need; someone well-versed in the trades and business who can teach basic skills, building a foundation of muscle-memory with materials and mechanisms and tools and equipment. Then this person can point the way to higher education in it, or in related fields.
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YHUP !!
That is a battle I've fought but I think we have than under control.
I think it was in 2010 the Office of Science & Technology Policy, The White House released a length document on education, wherein a group of ivory towered academics and esteemed business persons came up with the idea of "highly qualified", meaning you take a full engineer, and ask them to go to school for teaching credentials, take the pay cut, and voila, problem solved...... NOT That set off a lot of people marching in the wrong direction.
What is needed is the right balance of a lot of skills, and knowledge........ and so on..... And yes, this isn't an 'online' degree. I predict you will see a lot of people offering online 'STEM' certifications that are going to be useless.... but I digress.
Thank you for the book, I'll go read it now.
Ed