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plucky underdog on March 17, 2007 - 4:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hi Luis (no accents on this keyboard),

I think that most of the engineering degrees are thought today as specializing courses with a very narrow focus

American university education has always been broad and time con$uming, of course, but even in the UK now an engineering student would study a broad core curriculum for the first two years (of four for a BSc or BEng, or five for an MEng). This would include...

  • Engineering mathematics (calculus, vector calculus)
  • Strength of materials and structures
  • Machine design
  • Statics, kinematics, dynamics
  • Hydrostatics, some fluid mech
  • Thermodynamics
  • Some nuclear science
  • Economics (mostly discounted cashflow)
  • Probability and stats
  • Workshop and manufacturing practice
  • One foreign language

    • Then they would spend their final two years learning about petroleum engineering, with that lot as a foundation. The same would be true for an aeronautical engineer, say, or a nuclear engineer. Engineering students work just as hard as medical students, and by the time they graduate they know a lot more about a lot more than the average humanities scum.

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    Hans Blix on March 17, 2007 - 10:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

    "average humanities scum"

    And who would that be?

    I am an just an electronic engineer, but if I'm not a petroleum engineer, does that make me just an average humanite scum?

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    plucky underdog on March 18, 2007 - 1:28pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

    Not at all old chap - that was just for humorous effect.

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