On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 01:07:30AM +0100, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:10:55PM +0100, Brady, Padraig wrote:
> > I agree. Although it didn't happen
> > to the same extent in my degree course (Electronic
> > Engineering in DCU) we did notice that certain "hard"
> > topics in Maths etc. were being dropped year on year.
> [...]
>> Interesting. Is that a general trend? If so, that might explain to some
> degree the poor quality of Electronics graduates I've seen in interviews
> this year (the rest would be explained by the fact that the really good
> folks probably take their time to apply anywhere... :-) ). The most amazing
> experience was to interview a few Spanish graduates in contrast...
So far, in the 6 years since I graduated, most of the electronics graduates
I've met that really knew their stuff hardware and firmware were
Romanian. Apparently it's only the best graduates who get chances
to study abroad, and many of them want to get abroad, so there is
pretty fierce competition.
When I heard what these guys did for their degree course, I was
embarrassed about what the average (and even above-average) Irish
EE graduate comes out knowing...
Anyway, this is more appropriate for the technobabble list, so Reply-To
set accordingly.
Later,
Kenn
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