[Edu-sig] Fwd: Working engineers show frosh the ropes

[Jason Cunliffe]

May 21 | 2003 | Tech Talk: Working engineers show frosh the ropes

This is the third in a series of articles on educational initiatives that bring
innovation into the classroom...

"In electrical engineering, the students are not connected to the physical world
any more. They are not ham radio operators; they have not taken apart their
cars. As a result, there's a rather tenuous connection between the nice
mathematical concepts and the practical applications in the real world," said
Gerald Sussman, the Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering. "On the
other hand, they're more sophisticated in some ways. They come in knowing how to
program. So instead of teaching them to program, we teach them to solder."

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2003/may21/ed-computer.html

Jason