It pisses me off that STEM degrees like Civil Engineering are pushing to make graduate school part of the overall path to get a professional engineer license. Getting that Masters in Civil Engineering does not make me draft faster, write a report faster, watch the contractor build something more efficiently or win new projects from a client. In fact, I highly doubt the Masters program will even address the typical work done by a Manager at an engineering firm or public agency.
Under the current system, a Civil Engineer will go to school and get a Bachelor's degree. The Civil Engineer will then WORK in the field for a professional engineer, and then take a rigorous exam. That is the test of what the engineer learned in school and from experience (experience is the true learning environment).
The sad reality is that getting a Masters will require engineers to pile up debt for a marginal increase in wage and marginal benefit to the public and clients. It will, however, force consultants and contractors to increase prices to pay for those marginally higher educated employees.
I would go on more, but I have ANOTHER meeting that my schooling never prepared me for (by experience in the real world did).
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ReplyDeleteIt pisses me off that STEM degrees like Civil Engineering are pushing to make graduate school part of the overall path to get a professional engineer license. Getting that Masters in Civil Engineering does not make me draft faster, write a report faster, watch the contractor build something more efficiently or win new projects from a client. In fact, I highly doubt the Masters program will even address the typical work done by a Manager at an engineering firm or public agency.
Under the current system, a Civil Engineer will go to school and get a Bachelor's degree. The Civil Engineer will then WORK in the field for a professional engineer, and then take a rigorous exam. That is the test of what the engineer learned in school and from experience (experience is the true learning environment).
The sad reality is that getting a Masters will require engineers to pile up debt for a marginal increase in wage and marginal benefit to the public and clients. It will, however, force consultants and contractors to increase prices to pay for those marginally higher educated employees.
I would go on more, but I have ANOTHER meeting that my schooling never prepared me for (by experience in the real world did).
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