How ‘Skinny’ Can It Get?

This was one of those videos that I had to watch over and over as it demonstrates well the philosophy of iterative enhancement design to accomplish a goal. In this case, getting a Lego based car over a bridge (of a sort): Testing a Lego car against narrower and narrower bridges that it needs to … Read more

COVID-19 is killing science

A scientific question takes the form ‘If I make this change over here, what change happens over there?’  Anything else is a non-scientific question.  In particular,  engineering questions and moral questions are not scientific questions.

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“Want fries with that?” is not in the working vocab for these graduates.

From Business Insider (via BroBible) comes this list of what some college BA / BS grads can expect:


Median
Position Starting Salary Mid-career Salary
Statistics $49,300 $99,500
Computer Science $58,400 $100,000
Applied Mathematics $50,800 $102,000
Computer Engineering $62,700 $100,500
Electrical Engineering $63,400 $106,000
Nuclear Engineering $66,800 $107,000
Chemical Engineering $67,500 $111,000
3. Actuarial Mathematics $56,100 $112,000
2. Aerospace Engineering $62,500 $118,000
1. Petroleum Engineering $98,000 $163,000

All depend on mathematics and engineering skills (STEM) – arcane “studies” grads are not going to get these types of compensatory rewards.  Unless you are a genius, you will work hard, often very hard, to get that degree.  But you will have a marketable skill. On the other hand…

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