On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:06:31 -0700, Califbill billnews wrote:

Keyser Söze wrote:


Posit: a degree in electrical engineering is obsolete the day it is
issued. A degree in mechanical engineering, however, is not.




Actually mine is an Electro-mechanical discipline. And is never obsolete.
May need some continuing education, which I did. But other than faster,
and smaller, most notably is still appropriate. Actually, they big want
these days, is for old analog engineers.


Actually Harry is beyond his depth here. If your goal os a PE in
electrical engineering, the basics will still work for the rest of
your life.
Like you say, the hardware changes but the electrons stayed the same.
If you are computing heat rise in transformers or ampacity of
conductors in hostile environments, those old formulas still work,
although you can probably do the whole thing on your phone (AKA pocket
mainframe) now.