Post by dukePost by KevrobPost by dukePost by KevrobCurdles, at least, shows knowledge of history and culture.
He's a troll, but unlike you he isn't a barely educated lout.
I have an engineering degree.
That's as may be, and the more technically well-educated among us
here doubt that, based on what you post here.
Then you're not too intelligent.
The old, "you are dumb" retort! Not too compelling.
Post by dukePost by KevrobIn my day, and, I expect, in yours, also, universities had core
curricula such that anyone, even a engineering student, had to
study some history, philosophy, and the other "non-STEM" disciplines,
enough to be at least minimally conversant in what were called the
"liberal arts."
"That's as may be". But you're not an engineer. I did have history and other
"elective", but not philosophy. You future priests may have had to take one.
1 elective? That would be "one other elective," or "another elective,"
if you wanted to pass your composition course.
Post by dukePost by KevrobOne could go to a pure technical school, and avoid
all of that, but it wouldn't be in the great tradition of the Trivium
and the Quadrivium,* leading to the "Renaissance Man."
Screw the tradition. Look at what you became.
I'll let the others in the group judge who turned out the more
well-rounded human being.
Post by dukePost by KevrobDid you have to take a course or two in art and/or music? In both
composition and literature? Did you study any poetry, any drama,
any Great Books, or was it all just "jumped up plumbing?"
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. What fruitloop school did you attend?
I earned a Bachelor of Arts with majors in both political science
and history. I went to a Jesuit university in a large Midwestern city.
Most of the Jebby schools are in big towns. There are 28 of them
all over the country.
Post by dukePost by KevrobThe engineering students at my university were taught these things
in addition to the underlying science and math upon which engineering
is based. You couldn't carry their slide rules or graphing calculators.
I hade my own slide rule. And knew how to use it.
Good for you. Kids in my high school taking physics used to have them.
Post by dukeMaybe you should check out an engineering curriculum before opening your mouth.
I was friends with several dorm mates who were in the Engine House.
A few were in Naval ROTC. I signed up for the military history
course they were required to take, and it counted towards my
major. Our school turned out Naval Officers who got accepted into
Admiral Rickover's nuclear power program. A graduate of my school
started one of the major companies making medical imaging tech.
We had CEs, and MEs and EEs of all kinds. My class year was
supposed to be 1978, but it took me longer to graduate due to a
hiatus caused by illness, but that would give you an idea of the
tech level the students would have been dealing with. Even
"humanities types" like me were introduced to using the school's
computers. We started out with Xerox/SDS Sigma 7s, and upgraded
to DEC Vax-11s. I even wound up with 6 credits of computer science
classes, from the early 1980s, a little Intro to Computer Programming
and Structured Programming (we learned Pascal) just to become more
well-rounded, and to fill out my resume.
See, that's what a "liberal arts" student does with electives. He
or she learns more than the bare minimum. I didn't have to take a
double major. I could have filled my transcript with the easiest
courses I could find, and slide through. What would be the point
of that? Besides, I enjoyed upper-division history courses.
You don'rt show much knowledge beyond your dubious engineering
credential, and you sure weren't taught HOW to think, the way
that our logic and philosophy instructors did.
Kevin R