How a guy like that gets grant money is beyond me. It is as if people haven’t discovered that he is just a science fiction author who somehow got a job in the Engineering department...
How a guy like that gets grant money is beyond me. It is as if people haven’t discovered that he is just a science fiction author who somehow got a job in the Engineering department...
I think back on some of my engineering professors…I was in awe of them at the time. After 40 years in industry I realize the were uniformly educated fools. The closest they came to reality was providing testimony for some lawyer suing real engineers.
I just think the skill set of being a prof and being a practicing engineer are totally different things. I’m one of those weirdos that stuck around for an Engineering PhD, but couldn’t imagine staying in academia after I was done...
Depends. My dad was a professor (mining engineering) but he also had a tonne of hands-on experience before before and during. Teaching and applied work for decades. It's different today, I guess, with all the grants.
I’d probably like your dad. I went to a uni that had a special parking lot for Nobel laureates. Let’s just say nobody had any hands on experience, and nobody seemed to know how an air conditioner worked… good place for theory. Useless for anything practical.
I'm sure you would've liked him. Sad to say he got retired with a sigh of relief because the newer crops of students couldn't care less about what he and everyone else at the university was teaching. Engineering fell out of favour in the 90s. Tide may be turning now, though.
This is really strange, focusing exclusively on theory when it comes to sciences such as engineering.
How a guy like that gets grant money is beyond me. It is as if people haven’t discovered that he is just a science fiction author who somehow got a job in the Engineering department...
I think back on some of my engineering professors…I was in awe of them at the time. After 40 years in industry I realize the were uniformly educated fools. The closest they came to reality was providing testimony for some lawyer suing real engineers.
I just think the skill set of being a prof and being a practicing engineer are totally different things. I’m one of those weirdos that stuck around for an Engineering PhD, but couldn’t imagine staying in academia after I was done...
Depends. My dad was a professor (mining engineering) but he also had a tonne of hands-on experience before before and during. Teaching and applied work for decades. It's different today, I guess, with all the grants.
I’d probably like your dad. I went to a uni that had a special parking lot for Nobel laureates. Let’s just say nobody had any hands on experience, and nobody seemed to know how an air conditioner worked… good place for theory. Useless for anything practical.
I'm sure you would've liked him. Sad to say he got retired with a sigh of relief because the newer crops of students couldn't care less about what he and everyone else at the university was teaching. Engineering fell out of favour in the 90s. Tide may be turning now, though.
This is really strange, focusing exclusively on theory when it comes to sciences such as engineering.