[Adam Y.]

I'm not sure what the solution is yet, but I do know one thing: we need a different system for separating the wheat from the chaff. Traditional thinking says that School Degree == Knows His Stuff. Yet the reality is that you have a lot of people who go to school, but aren't really qualified for the job. At the other end of the spectrum, you have a lot of people who've made use of today's information mediums to become qualified without a degree. It's all a very confused situation.

Arggg... I had a post but I lost it. Anyway here is the abrevated version of it. What information mediums?? There are virtually none anymore. Forty years ago there used to be when Radio Shack was an actual electronics store. Though it is possible to learn about the computers but nothing else really through books. I don't even agree with the reasons why engineering is on the decline. The career is just starting to exit from a dark era where people hated the profession. They felt that engineers where immoral and that technology would result in our demise.