04-30-2004, 01:55 AM
As someone who just completed his Master's in Electrical Engineering I say "welcome to the engineering world" ;-)
We had problems with students not knowing how to do basic math as well. Our department was structured to give out 3 stumbling blocks to students with those problems. The Linear Systems\Electronics I semester would weed out the really stupid\slacker people, the Communications\Electronics II would get rid of the ones that slipped by the cracks the first time and the final one of Electromagnetic Field Theory II would separate the men from the boys when it came to the EE students. The rest of the classes were fine, but those particular ones were some of my hardest and most challenging times in engineering school. Graduate school was more fun though, probably because we had a network of the same 5-6 students in my research area that all took the same classes and all worked on the material together so that we would cover all of the bases and do well in the classes.
And we did have 1 4.0 student in EE. He was one smart guy too. Not a workaholic, just very intelligent. And all of his circuits and systems would WORK the first time when he built them. He couldn't do PSpice to save his life though ;-)
We had problems with students not knowing how to do basic math as well. Our department was structured to give out 3 stumbling blocks to students with those problems. The Linear Systems\Electronics I semester would weed out the really stupid\slacker people, the Communications\Electronics II would get rid of the ones that slipped by the cracks the first time and the final one of Electromagnetic Field Theory II would separate the men from the boys when it came to the EE students. The rest of the classes were fine, but those particular ones were some of my hardest and most challenging times in engineering school. Graduate school was more fun though, probably because we had a network of the same 5-6 students in my research area that all took the same classes and all worked on the material together so that we would cover all of the bases and do well in the classes.
And we did have 1 4.0 student in EE. He was one smart guy too. Not a workaholic, just very intelligent. And all of his circuits and systems would WORK the first time when he built them. He couldn't do PSpice to save his life though ;-)