The crossroads of Engineering education
La enseñanza de la Ingeniería en su encrucijada
expect education in technology with immediate practical activities and with the minimum of formal theory, because in summary everything is so easy to use that they think it is not necessary to make things difficult with a thoroughly understanding of how to conceive, manufacture, operate, perform and of the final disposition of equipment and technical systems. Finally, the frequent outcome of studying an Engineering career could be another reason, since recent graduates often do not have the skills and knowledge demanded by the labor market and are received with unattractive salaries, in addition to the discovery that graduates of other careers
with little technical and engineering preparation use technologies and turn them into highly profitable businesses.
se cree que no es necesario complicarse con comprender a fondo cómo se conciben, fabrican, operan y se realiza la disposición final de un equipo o sistema técnico. Por último, podría mencionarse el desenlace frecuente de estudiar una Ingeniería, ya que los recién graduados muchas veces no cuentan con las habilidades y conocimientos que demanda el mercado laboral y son recibidos con salarios pocos atractivos; a lo que se suma el descubrimiento de que los egresados de otras carreras con poca preparación técnica y de Ingeniería se apoyan en el uso de las tecnologías y las convierten en
negocios altamente rentables.
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