Living to Learn Living to Learn Learning is a process, not an activity with an end. No advertising, just down to earth embedded talk. Zip or Country Email Colleges do a lousy job of preparing engineers for the real world. It's appalling that so little of a typical curricula is dedicated to making things work, to experiencing dramatic failure in all its guises, to taking an idea from inception through design and debug to a functioning product.
Engineering is about making things.
Things that work. Things that improve life for the world's masses. Personally, I love to make things, and take great delight in the process of invention that leads to something that finally works. It seems, though, that most young engineers graduate convinced that their education is over. After four or five years of struggling through differential equations and organic chemistry, they just know that studying is yet another of life's unpleasant obstacles they've finally overcome.