Impressions of school.

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Originally Posted by Fox 6

Here are the gripes. Since its industry based a lot of the instructors are strait form the industry. thats not bad but they are only available at nights.

Now that I'm a year out of electrical engineering undergrad, working in the real world for a year after graduating, I have a slight bit of perspective. (I do mean slight.)

The one thing I most wish I had had more of in my undergrad career was more instructors straight from the industry. One of my professors was from the industry, and he was easily the best professor we had. He expected perfection from us, and yelled at us a lot, cussed a lot, and told a LOT of dirty jokes, but he knew his shit. He asked a lot of questions from everyone in the class, never letting anyone trying to just sail through the class to slip by, and usually ridiculed you if you didn't know the answer.

He was a harsh professor, and that was mostly because he came from the energy industry -- he was not a career professor -- and the energy industry is mostly full of shit-talking good-'ol-boys who tell dirty jokes. This guy was a short, fat, Jewish guy from Canada, but he could hang. But if you weren't really interested in the class, you would hate him. Even if you were really interested in the class, it was easy to hate him sometimes because he expected so much. But he forced you to learn. And I wish now that all of my professors were that way.

Instead, most professors were happy to let you skate by. Industry professors rock.

Though I did have one instructor retired from the industry, and he was a fat slouch. But he was an instructor for our electrical engineering seminar classes. He wasn't really supposed to do much.