Those "useless underwater basketweaving majors" get hired by engineering firms to deal with the public because engineers are too specialized in their education.
But do you really need to spend tens of thousands of dollars and 4 yrs on a degree just to communicate with people? ItтАЩs unnecessary and fuels the college grifting scheme.
Communication is hard. You have to have a breadth of experience to try to anticipate what other people might think about how and what you say. You have to assess context. Moving from the often incredibly specialized philosophy and perspective that engineers swim in to the perspective of a customer is often like translating from one language to another. If you work for an international firm, the difficulties increase exponentially. And, that's just at work. It doesn't even begin to cover the much more difficult task of training a good citizen.
That was the yes answer. The no answer is that the student does not need to spend that money. The expense of education can be paid by the public, which benefits immensely from an educated people.
Yep engineering programs do that with co-op programs. But not for useless underwater basketweaving majors etc.
Those "useless underwater basketweaving majors" get hired by engineering firms to deal with the public because engineers are too specialized in their education.
But do you really need to spend tens of thousands of dollars and 4 yrs on a degree just to communicate with people? ItтАЩs unnecessary and fuels the college grifting scheme.
Communication is hard. You have to have a breadth of experience to try to anticipate what other people might think about how and what you say. You have to assess context. Moving from the often incredibly specialized philosophy and perspective that engineers swim in to the perspective of a customer is often like translating from one language to another. If you work for an international firm, the difficulties increase exponentially. And, that's just at work. It doesn't even begin to cover the much more difficult task of training a good citizen.
That was the yes answer. The no answer is that the student does not need to spend that money. The expense of education can be paid by the public, which benefits immensely from an educated people.