On May 14, 2011, Professors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa published an unsettling Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, entitled "Your So-Called Education." In it they show that roughly 1/2 of all undergraduates learns little or nothing in college, regardless of tuition costs. Never mind, much of the tuition goes to nicer dorms, bigger gyms and other amenities, while education is left behind. Apparently, education is not on top of priorities of the young undergraduate "customers" and their overly protective parents.
I presume that the authors refer mostly to the non-science and non-engineering students, because no engineering student would ever survive learning for just 11-13 hours per week. This is why practicing engineers make only one-half of one percent of the population in the U.S. It gets really lonely out there when we talk about rigors of engineering education, while other people stare at us in silence, their eyes saying: "You guys think too much, way …
I presume that the authors refer mostly to the non-science and non-engineering students, because no engineering student would ever survive learning for just 11-13 hours per week. This is why practicing engineers make only one-half of one percent of the population in the U.S. It gets really lonely out there when we talk about rigors of engineering education, while other people stare at us in silence, their eyes saying: "You guys think too much, way …