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Ask a lawyer about that one. Hey I want to be a BSEE, why do I have
to take History classes ????

You don't have to take history classes in some schools
to get a BSEE.



Broaden the category to Socio-Humanistic electives or whatever
equivalent term that your college uses and you will find that you do
have to take a certain amount of them. And everyone regardless of
major has to take English even though they should already be
proficient at that before they get there. You have to take quite a
few "unnecessary" courses in college to get a degree in any field.

Unless you are a "non-traditional student" at old PSU, you have
to
take
Physical Education classes. My son is taking Karate this semester, as
a
required course.

It has no bearing on his eventual carreer, yet he may elect to
not
take
it, and not graduate. He has to take some history, to and there are
plenty of other classes that have a questionable relevence to his
eventual carreer.

Even the Electrical engineers have to take these classes.

The idea is actually sound, as it helps produce a more well
rounded
individual. It also takes into account that a person may not have the
same "core competencies" their entire career. A narrowly focused
education may prepare a person for a carreer that eventually
dissapears.

- Mike KB3EIA -



I might have known that you would think it was a good idea - I don't

When my son-in-law(a ham) was deciding which engineering discipline to
major in (he
later graduated
cum laude in civil engineering) he discussed it with my daughter who
suggested that
transportation
was a industry that isn't going away, so he became a highway engineer,
working on
interstate and tollway projects. He has been steadily employed with a
large stable
national company, and
does very well.
On the other hand, I read a number of electrical and digital engineers
lamenting
the shipping of their work to offshore areas like India and the middle
east (I read
that Microsoft is doing that - I wonder who they plan to sell their wares
to when all
the good jobs here are gone?) where such engineering can be done at far
less expense
than in the US.

Meanwhile, it's difficult to engineer a road project from the other side
of the
planet!

Dick,

Wow, something we agree on. The exportation of development
engineering is quite widespread. Software development
is also wholesaled to India by many companies (perhaps you
meant that too in reference to digital engineering).

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK