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This opinion piece in The Register (from summer last year) attempts to explain the shortage of EE recruits some industry is dealing with.
The gist is that when we were young we could develop our fascination for electronics into real skills and knowledge before even going to college ...
It's a short read. Kinda nostalgic but so are a lot of conversations here, right? Enjoy!
Engineers on brink of extinction threaten entire ecosystems
Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies
www.theregister.com
While computer science course take-up had gone up by over 90 percent in the past 50 years, electrical engineering (EE) had declined by the same amount. The electronics graduate has become rarer than an Intel-based smartphone.
The gist is that when we were young we could develop our fascination for electronics into real skills and knowledge before even going to college ...
This was practical magic, and you could start your apprenticeship by taking the back off a broken wireless. If you had the urge, it was easy to ignite the fascination. Then came the pull of working on the front line of the Cold War, the space age, the era of technological innovation. The industry had its supply of fresh creativity guaranteed.
This remained broadly true until the turn of the 21st century. A reasonably bright kid would realize that the family CRT television was in fact a particle accelerator with its own multi-kilovolt high-voltage generator, plus any amount of repurposable bits and pieces. You can have a lot of fun with that. There were old analog gadgets all over the place. You could peer inside Granny's radio and follow the signal path, component by component. That's all gone now.
It's a short read. Kinda nostalgic but so are a lot of conversations here, right? Enjoy!
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