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On 8/23/13 4:20 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:22:33 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

k.

I also have both military electronics school USAF and civilian electronics
school, NCR computers, and an EE university degree.i hired lots of Cal and
Stanford EEs over the years. Most have no practical knowledge. Were not
as good of engineers as those with practical training also. And Mr.
Luddite is correct. Navy techs were the best! Learned how to fix, and
just not swap parts.

IBM experimented in the early 70s by hiring 4 EEs into the FE
division. (vets were getting to be hard to find)
One was eventually moved to a traditional engineering job at FSD and
ended up retiring from Loral. I still talk to him.
One was fast tracked into management, the AA to the division president
the last time I saw him and we ended up firing the other 2 because
they couldn't fix anything and they refused to learn anything. They
already knew it all.

Well, gosh, let's close down all the EE mills.