Re: E=IxR
Rattus
I apologize for coming off so strong last night and bouncing so hard on the electronics side of the engineer?s degree.
I have taught classes for the past five years at the community college. I don?t have a Masters Degree so I cannot teach transfer students although I did teach a lot of the theory classes.
Over the last five years I have receive students that had failed out of the first year of the electronic classes that were working toward an Electrical Engineer degree. These were the most difficult students to work with as they were always coming to my classes mid way through the curriculum and I would have to redirect their way of thinking about circuit lay out.
I am working toward an Electrical Engineers degree and if it wasn?t for the theory classes that I taught I would have failed out. I can understand the reasoning behind some of the classes that I need to take and how they would at some point in time apply to the trade but, for the most part, I will never use any of what is being covered.
At the end of my last class the instructor ask us to write a short essay on what we had learned during his class. This essay will count as 25% of your final grade. He gave me full credit for my essay and I barley passed his course. He is a retired engineer himself.
A short summery of my essay:
Although the knowledge I have gained in this class could be applied in real life I will never use much of it. I have learned that if I burn approximately 178 calories I can produce enough energy for approximately one horse power or 746 watts of power.
In my post above I should have stated it a little different for those who are in the know but I was trying to keep it on an eighth grade level. Maybe I should have made the statement a little more like this.
The amount of energy consumed to generate enough voltage to push one amp through one ohm of resistance will result in one watt.
Again please accept my apologies for trashing those who were smart enough and have worked hard enough to obtain their engineering degree. A lot of the resentment I feel could be due to the difficulties I am having passing some of these classes and I assure you I am having a hard time with them especially the calculus. What does it matter that the pitcher throws a ball at 90 MPH. Home plate is 60 feet 6 inches from the pitcher. Where is the ball when it reaches 45 MPH? Who cares? The only thing that is important is, did the batter hit it or not.
One more time, please forgive me for trashing the Electrical Engineers for it is not their fault that the curriculum is as hard as it is (at least for me).
