Attn: Present & Future College Students, Think carefully before you mentor

[KenWittlief]

quote]Originally Posted by aaronm_k
My team's leader, an engineer who became a teacher, even says being on a FIRST team will teach you more about engineering than you will ever learn in college.[\quote]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Now that doesn't say good things about the education system does it? I would put a but since I am a college student currently, I'll stick with the

Long live FIRST

you learn different things on a FIRST team than you do in college. FIRST is not an engineering crash course, its an engineering exposure experience.

If you attend a college with a 5 year coop program then you will also get the practical hands-on, real project (schedule, budget, tradeoffs, resources....) experience that only comes from being on a real project.

When you graduate from a 4 or 5 year engineering university in most cases you would start working for a corporation as a junior engineer, and they would not expect you to function 100% independantly on a major project.

Engineering is a career of continuous learning, acquiring new skills, and growth.