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2004-04-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

SFSU - ~~Irish~~ Engineers Need Not Apply

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Posted by Raj 2004-04-08 4:48:44 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio....

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-08 4:56:51 PM|| 2004-04-08 4:56:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 no problem - plenty of other schools will pick up the slack. Pretty obviously the E school is low on the priority/funding/attention/pride list at ~~STFU~~ SFSU

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-08 5:04:59 PM|| 2004-04-08 5:04:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 They may be on to something - given U.S. companies outsourcing engineering jobs to other countries, there's not a whole lot of demand for U.S. engineers. Many of the CS and EE's I've worked with are moving into other fields.

Posted by A Jackson 2004-04-08 6:15:04 PM|| 2004-04-08 6:15:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It makes you wonder if the guys in Engineering should rename their discipline. You know, make it the School of Engineering, Structural Inequality and Disparity Dynamics.

At the University of New South Wales, it's the Faculty of the Built Environment. It's the environment, see? Environment=good. Not engineering. Hey, there's one at Berkeley, too.

When the revolution comes, though, I'll be prepared.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-04-08 6:22:36 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-04-08 6:22:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This does sound like a typical govt. bureaucrats' response to the money tap being slowed.Threaten to close something important/popular unless you get all the funding you want.(For example,isn't it funny how the Interior Department can't find any fat to cut when budgets are tight-it always has to close the National Parks.)
Funniest example to me of bureaucratic hysteria exploding in their face occurred a few years ago in Tampa.The school district went crazy claiming it faced a shortage of 6000 teachers and it needed a ton of money immediately to fix problem-they discovered the shortage only a month before start of new school year.The shortage was blamed on low pay of teachers,that no one wanted to teach in Tampa because of low pay.Local papers were soon flooded w/accounts of applicants who were told the school district didn't need them.School officials then tried to claim applicants weren't qualified-that backfired when scores of part-time teachers said they wanted to work full-time,and experienced teachers from up North who'd moved South were all told they weren't wanted.

Posted by Stephen 2004-04-08 7:17:00 PM|| 2004-04-08 7:17:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Revolutionary Engineering" - the integration of the School of Engineering with College ROTC. THAT will put them in their place! 8^)

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-08 7:55:48 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-08 7:55:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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