America’s Chip Renaissance Needs Workers – WSJ
See my comment on the article. Here is what I wrote.
Many universities, like the “elite” one where I taught engineers, want happy “customers”, not educated ‘students”.
That America doesn’t have the excellent engineers it needs is not a surprise to me.
When I taught differential equations, the engineering deans and math chair were far more concerned about not losing a single student and making the class a “cookbook” course, than they were about the students learning. That’s okay, they did learn, simply because I required them to do so. (Well, there is a little more than having standards, but without standards, nothing else matters.) Not only did they learn, they learned from the excellent MIT material that I used for the course. But the course went right back to the “cookbook”, “happy customers” standard, the course where students could get an A and have trouble with MIT problems.
See “A Tale Out of School” on my blog inside-higher-ed for the details and much more.
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