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It’s interesting how much hostility there is around talking about this sort of thing. When I replied with a comment to the original post, pulling some numbers out of the studies, with a comment saying that the numbers didn’t support the conclusion, I was immediately downvoted (-1, troll).
Now that this blog post has been publicized, the author of the post I’m responding seems to be running a twitter smear campaign against me, with a series of personal attacks and an appeal to authority thrown in for good measure.
I’d like to see a real discussion of the issues, but that’s not happening here and it’s difficult to see how it’s even possible.
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Sorry for side-tracking here:
What is Engineering Technology, should it be include with Engineering? Why are CS and IT lumped together? Why are Bio/PhysSci/Science Technology(same question as E.T.)/Math/AgSci all lumped together?
I don’t know if these categorizations were yours or the original studys.
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The categorization is from the original study. My post is actually pretty boring; there’s no synthesis or analysis, just quotes from the actual studies with some comments here and there.
Good question about engineering tech; I hadn’t heard of it myself until I did grad school at a place that offered EE and EETech degrees. In my mind, engineering tech and engineering folks have pretty much the same skillset. With EETech, there’s more of a focus on the practical and less on the theoretical.
For some strange reason, learning about solid state physics, combinatorics, and gauge fields made me a lot more employable, despite having little practical value in my professional life (combinatorics has occasionally been useful). Employers seem to prefer hiring folks with EE degrees to folks with EETech degrees, especially for higher level positions.
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The one day I don’t use the internet.