All Williams Wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Williams" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Kennedy Western University > doing "training" where we do seminars to adult learners. The University > system has so much going for it and so much potential, that it saddens > me that it isn't better than it is. Well, I have at least one data point that says the University BSEE system is much better than it used to be. I graduated from University of Missouri with a BSEE in 1980. At the time, I was begging for a course in microcontrollers and assembly language, and the response I got was "Oh, just read the data sheets. Microcontrollers are a dead end, you should be studying something useful like big power SCR's." Years later, after a lot of struggle I have taught myself how to get around a PIC, a little C, some assembler, and a lot of other practical skills, and big power SCR's are dead. Learning this stuff has been quite a struggle, esp. before I discovered this List. I've been working with a recent grad from the same school, and I can toss a few PIC's, a block diagram of a circuit, plus a flowchart on her bench and she can sit down and build a circuit and program it in C. Geez. So far I am a lot more impressed with what engineering schools are turning out now versus 20 years ago. --Lawrence -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads