Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 10/16/2013 7:15 AM, Darko Gavrilovic wrote:On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:Which is also why Universities require about 3/4 of the course hours be outside of your major.Huh!!?? I think you may be referring to distribution requirements and you might mean 1/4 of your "course hours". It's a distribution requirement applies to under graduate studies so that you graduate as a fully rounded intelligent member of society. :-)I meant exactly what I said. When I was in college, my EE major required 180 hours (quarter system, not semesters). Of those 180 hours, 45 of them were actual EE classes. Some others were related such as math and physics; even programming (Fortran) was required. But over 1/2 the hours had absolutely nothing to do with EE.And don't get me started on the Computer Science curriculum (which at the time required 2 years of a foreign language).
Doesn't say much for your degree, then. -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra