"Andrew Sarangan" wrote:

Elec engineering students graduate without ever having seen a
soldering iron; mech engineers graduate never having done any
machining. I once had a "top" elec eng PhD student who, when asked to
install an on/off switch for an equipment, hooked up the live and
neutral wires across the switch.

Yep.

We hired a Dean's list EE to be a systems designer. After he had been with us
a few weeks, one of the techs asked me, "How can he be an electrical engineer
and not know anything about electricity?"

--
Dan

"The future has actually been here for a while, it's just not readily
available to everyone."
- some guy at MIT